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Re: st: MIME-Version: 1.0
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A Loumiotis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: MIME-Version: 1.0
Date
Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:45:07 +0200
It is not currently possible to install fastcd from ssc because the
ado file is missing. Only the help file is available and can be
installed.
Antonis
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Neil Shephard <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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