I believe that the operating system may be listing the files, but then
the OS window closes as soon as that finishes, making it impossible for
you to actually see the results. (Which raises the question, why do you
want to do this within the OS, rather than from within Stata?)
Nick Winter
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karina Fortuny [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 12:36 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: st: RE: Arrays - unidentified number of elements
>
>
> I realize this :). I was saying that
> dir \mydirectory\*.dta
> shows the files in mydirectory
> but
> oscmd dir \mydirectorypath\*.dta
>
> does not - and the weird thing is that a screen
> flashes up for a second and that's it.
>
> --- Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Karina Fortuny
> > >
> > > oscmd dir /b *.dta -
> > >
> > > When I run the program - oscmd, no results appear
> > in
> > > the Results window. (If I type just dir /b *.dta,
> > the
> > > files are listed in the results window). A window
> > > flashes for a second and disappears. The OS is
> > > Windows.
> >
> > This example will only produce detectable
> > output if there is at least one .dta file
> > in the current directory.
> >
> > . dir *.dta
> >
> > is Stata's way of showing that.
> >
> > Nick
> > [email protected]
> >
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