As a follow-up, I wanted to report that Chinh Nguyen supplied a new
version of Stata's info.plist for the Mac together with much useful
advice that solved the problem. Thanks very much to Chinh and to
Stata.
Fred
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:51 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Fred Wolfe" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> A question that perhaps the Mac Stata gurus can answer. The mac
>> designates .do and .ado files as having a "file kind" as "ASP Code
>> File." By contrast, dta file kinds is .dta and graph file kind is
>
> What you're describing is actually called a uniform type identifier (UTI).
> Stata uses UTIs to tag its text files so that an application such as Spotlight
> can identify them as containing plain text data. A UTI is not the same as the
> file kind you see in the Finder.
>
> Stata text files such as do-files and ado-files mistakenly have the "ASP code
> file" description for its UTI. Although the description for Stata's UTI is
> incorrect, this does not affect the functionality of the Stata files. This
> will be corrected to "Stata text file" in a future update.
>
>> .gph. The combining of .do and .ado causes me some problems in
>> searching. Does anyone know how to change the file kind or have some
>> other kind of work around?
>
> The intent was for all Stata text files to appear as "Stata text file" but
> we're open to changing them to have unique descriptions.
>
> -Chinh Nguyen
> [email protected]
>
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Fred Wolfe
National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases
Wichita, Kansas
NDB Office +1 316 263 2125 Ext 0
Research Office +1 316 686 9195
[email protected]
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