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| From | Neil Shephard <nshephard@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | 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 <ojones@wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de> 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 -- “Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.” - Konrad Lorenz Email - nshephard@gmail.com Website - http://kimura.no-ip.org/ Photos - http://www.flickr.com/photos/slackline/ * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/