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Re: st: MIME-Version: 1.0
From
Neil Shephard <[email protected]>
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Re: st: MIME-Version: 1.0
Date
Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:54:47 +0000
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Oliver Jones
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Assuming you just want to start an interactive session and you don't work
> from a command line and open a Stata Window, then it is inconvenient to type
> use C:"very long path"/mydata
> In this case just double clicking the mydata.dta is a lot more convenient!
>
You could ease this process by installing and using -fastcd- so that
you have a set of what are essentially macros for the "very long path"
that you can call to change directory.
Once in that "working" directory you will likely have sub-directories
for 'data', 'scripts' and so forth and its then a case of...
use "data/mydata", clear
Check out -fastcd- from ssc and install with....
ssc desc fastcd
ssc install fastcd
Its a great little utility from Nick Winter.
Neil
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