Re: st: One help file for two program

[John Antonakis <John.Antonakis@unil.ch>]

OK. Thus, it does not appear possible for us (outside of Stata) to have 
two programs point to the same help file.

At least

.h program_name

does the trick.

Thanks everyone, Austin, Daniel, and Ken.

Best,
J.

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On 22.03.2013 20:28, khigbee@stata.com wrote:
> Daniel Klein <klein.daniel.81@gmail.com> is correct:
>
> > you can point to another help file simply saving the one line
> >
> > .h john
> >
> > (note the dot is not followed by a space) in the file johni.sthlp. If
> > you then type
> >
> > h johni
> >
> > the help file for -john- (john.sthlp) will pop up.
> This is how users add aliases for help files.  It is better than
> having several differently named files with identical content.
> Using ".h" you can avoid editing several files every time you
> want to make a change.
>
> Long ago, Stata used .h to create all of it's help aliases -- and
> the method still works and is available to you.  However, now the
> official Stata help files determine aliases from alias .maint
> files.  We did this because of the large number of aliases that
> we were wanting for the help system.
>
> The help alias files have names like xhelp_alias.maint, and
> there is one for each letter.  If curious, you can
>
>      . viewsource xhelp_alias.maint
>
> to see the alias file for the letter x, or
>
>      . viewsource bhelp_alias.maint
>
> to see the alias file for the letter b.  The files have two columns,
> the second column is the name of the help file to show when help is
> requested for the item in the first column.
>
>
> Ken Higbee    khigbee@stata.com
> StataCorp     1-800-STATAPC
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