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Re: st: maximum size of the output file using postfile command
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: maximum size of the output file using postfile command
Date
Tue, 3 Jan 2012 08:36:41 +0000
I don't think any limits are documented. If there are limits, I guess
1. They are imposed by your operating system or machine
2. They are far larger than your observed maximum.
I conclude that there is some other problem with your code.
Nick
2012/1/3 <[email protected]>:
> just a short question please regarding the Stata command `postfile'.
> Is there any limitation regarding the size/number of lines regarding the file?
> My code consistently returns dta output when using `postfile' that is 7338 lines long/862kB large,
> even though the number of combinations far exceeds it (there were supposed to be 2^20-1 lines).
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