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I would not jump to this conclusion. Towards the end of
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help dialog_programming
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remarks 5.5, there is a statement to the effect that " Dialogs that are launched by using the db command cause Stata to become busy and remain busy until the dialog is completely loaded."
If you run Rajesh`s commands interactively, there is no problem. If you run them from a do/ado-file, as his subject line seems to indicate, then Stata waits for your input from the dialog box, gets it, executes the rest of the do file with the "_request" and immediately afterwards implements the u-action from the dialog box, which subsequently is soaked up as the answer to the request...
HTH
Martin
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Gesendet: Mittwoch, 29. April 2009 15:53
An: [email protected]
Betreff: Re: st: Db with an ado
--- On Wed, 29/4/09, Tharyan, Rajesh wrote:
> When I issue a command followed by by a request statement
> as in something like below..
>
> . db use
> . di "do you want to list: (enter 1 for yes 2 for no)
> " _request(_answer)
> do you want to list: (enter 1 for yes 2 for no) . use
> "C:\data\results.dta", clear
>
> Stata automatically uses the echo from the db use command
> as _answer. Is there anyway to prevent this?
Sounds like there is something wrong with your Stata
instalation. The first thing you could try is type:
update all
update swap
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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