Kit Baum wrote that
>I don't see why one needs to do anything to avoid writing double backslashes:
>. file open `junk' using junk.tex, write replace
>. file write `junk' " Tamas \\" _n
>. file write `junk' " Bartus \\" _n
>. file close `junk'
Am I right that you are using Unix? I am using Windows.
What surprises me that Roy's method of macro substituion works,
but typing double backslash doesn't.
My guess is that \\ in Windows is a special character, meaning
it is reserved for specifying path names or accessing network places.
And to get \\ into the output file, poor Windows users should type something different.
But I failed to discover, what...
Maybe people at StataCorp know the answer....
Tamas
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Tamas Bartus, PhD
Associate Professor, Institute of Sociology and Social Policy
Corvinus University, Budapest
1093 Budapest, Közraktár utca 4-6.
Phone: +36-1-482-7301
Fax: +36-1-482-7348
Homepage: http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/bartus
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