st: New vesrion of -dologx- on SSC

[Roger Newson <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk>]

Thanks once again to Kit Baum, a new version of the -dologx- package is 
now available for download from SSC. In Stata, use the -ssc- package to 
do this, or -adoupdate- if the user already has a version of -dologx-.

The -dologx- package is described as below on my website, and is used 
for executing a certification script, under various versions of Stata, 
to produce a text log file. (A certification script should not contain a 
-version- statement, as it is supposed to be tested under multiple 
versions of Stata.) The new version has been updated to Stata Version 
12, and can now be used by Stata Version 12 users for executing 
certification scripts under Stata Versions 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7 and 6.

Users of Stata versions 11, 10, 9 or 8 can still download the old 
versions of -dologx- for their Stata versions from my website by typing, 
in Stata,

net from http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/

and selecting the subdirectory for the Stata version required and 
downloading -dologx-. For instance, a Stata Version 10 user who wants to 
execute certification scripts under Stata Versions 10, 9, 8, 7 and/or 6 
should select the -stata10- subdirectory and download the version of 
-dologx- found there.

Note that each of the versions of -dologx- on my website has an on-line 
help file written for its own version of Stata, and also ado-files for 
executing certification scripts in each version of Stata from its own 
version back to Version 5. As a general principle, the Stata version of 
a package is the highest Stata version required for using any of its 
component files.

Best wishes

Roger


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package dologx from http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/stata12
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TITLE
      dologx: Multiple versions of dolog for executing certification 
scripts

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      dologx (like dolog) causes Stata to execute the commands stored 
in a do-file
      named filename.do as if they were entered from the keyboard, and 
echos the
      commands as it executes them, creating a log file filename.log. 
The dologx
      package contains multiple versions of dolog, written in multiple 
Stata
      versions, intended for use when running certification scripts. 
Usually, a
      do-file should contain a version statement at or near the top, so 
it will
      still run in the Stata version in which it was written, even if 
the user runs
      it under a later version of Stata. Certification scripts are an 
exception to
      this rule, because they are run under multiple Stata versions, to 
certify
      that the package being tested works under all of these versions. A
      certification script therefore should not contain a version 
statement at the
      top. The version of Stata under which it run will therefore be 
the version in
      force in the program that calls it, even if that program is 
dolog. The
      standard version of dolog should therefore not be used to run a 
certification
      script, and the user should use the dologx package instead, using 
dolog6 to
      run it under Stata 6, dolog7 to run it under Stata 7, and so on.

      Author: Roger Newson
      Distribution-Date: 10august2011
      Stata-Version: 12

INSTALLATION FILES                                  (click here to install)
      dolog6.ado
      dolog7.ado
      dolog8.ado
      dolog9.ado
      dolog10.ado
      dolog11.ado
      dolog12.ado
      dologx.sthlp
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