Re: st: Cannot drop a program

[Oliver Jones <ojones@wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de>]

Maybe it is automatically loaded when Stata is started.
Program drop does not delete programs.

Best
Oliver


Am 05.03.2012 11:46, schrieb Ángel Rodríguez Laso:
> Dear Statalisters,
>
> I'm working with Stata 9.2.
>
> Some time ago I inserted in Stata the program nt by Svend Juul to
> invoke NoteTab Light from Stata. I made a mistake in the orders and
> -nt- does not open the stata.log I need. I've tried to drop the nt
> program with:
>
> "program drop nt"
>
> to rewrite it.
>
> Now when I open Stata and write in the command bar:
>
> "program list nt"
>
> I get:
>
> "nt not found"
>
> which makes sense. But then, if I write "nt", the program runs and if
> I then write "program list nt" I get the old version of nt that I
> thought I had deleted:
>
> nt:
>    1. winexec "C:\Program Files (x86)\NoteTab Light\NoteTab.exe"
> C:\Windows\Temp\stata.log
>
>
> Any clue why this is happening?
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Angel Rodriguez-Laso
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