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Re: st: MIME-Version: 1.0


From   Oliver Jones <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: MIME-Version: 1.0
Date   Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:40:20 +0100

Until now I haven't used more than one or two userwritten commands, but it seems like
SSC is a place where one can find a nice like program/command for nearly everything.
I definitely have too check it out more regularly!

Am 24.03.2011 14:54, schrieb Neil Shephard:
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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