Re: st: AW: compare files, vars only

[David Kantor <kantor.d@att.net>]

At 01:32 PM 2/19/2009, Mike Hanson wrote:
> On Feb 19, 2009, at 1:02 PM, David Kantor wrote:
>
> > [...]
> > Incidentally, in case you want to know the motivation: I often get
> > revised or supplemental files, but where the variables may have
> > changed slightly -- a few dropped or added, or a few that have had
> > a change of spelling of the name.
>
>         If that is the case, then wouldn't the -datasignature- command
> (significantly updated in Stata 10.1) be the most effective tool?
> See -help datasignature- for all the things one can do when managing
> shared data files.

Thanks for that suggestion. It's useful to know, but not applicable 
in my situation.
--David

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