I can't answer Stas's question, but Serguei will most probably find
this page helpful:
http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?dta
because it contains the fragments of the actual C-code to read Stata .dta files.
Also R has a package FOREIGN, which is open source and the code shows
how to read Stata files.
The source is here:
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/foreign/index.html
http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/foreign_0.8-37.tar.gz
Unfortunately I could not find descriptions for the older Stata formats :(
Perhaps Stata developers could make those descriptions available?
Best regards, Sergiy Radyakin
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Stas Kolenikov<[email protected]> wrote:
> [growling lowly] Why all these Russians by the name of Serguei (or
> Sergey, or whatever) want to hack into guts of Stata?
>
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 5:08 AM, Serguei
> Kaniovski<[email protected]> wrote:
>> If I saved data in the binary format, would I be able to read it in c or
>> c++ on a windows machine?
>
> --
> Stas Kolenikov, also found at http://stas.kolenikov.name
> Small print: I use this email account for mailing lists only.
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> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
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