Re: st: Program error after installing Stata 12.1 for the MAC.

[Phil Schumm <pschumm@uchicago.edu>]

On Feb 1, 2012, at 2:43 PM, Fred Wolfe wrote:
> No, the previous version did have a newline. I always put in a newline! So, it worked on 12.0 OSX 10.72, but did not work on 12.1. I did verify that there was a newline. What made it work was adding another newline.

On Feb 1, 2012, at 3:10 PM, Philip Ender wrote:
> I just tested it on another ado program and it happened again.  Adding a second blank line allows the ado program to run.


I believe this may be a function of the EOL characters in the file.  I just checked, and on my machine (Stata 12.1 born 30 Jan 2012), a single final newline is sufficient provided that the file uses linefeed as the EOL character (standard under Unix/Linux, and now under OS X).  However, if the file is saved with carriage returns instead, then two final newlines are required to get Stata to load the ado-file.  I believe that some text editors on OS X still don't use linefeed by default, and this would have been more likely if you had edited the file some time ago.

You can convert from CR to LF with

    tr '\r' '\n' < old_file.ado > new_file.ado

or via -filefilter- from within Stata.


-- Phil


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