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RE: st: RE: Cross-platform mobility


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: RE: Cross-platform mobility
Date   Mon, 22 Sep 2003 21:21:47 +0100

Danielle H. Ferry

> > I am not clear quite how this is biting you,
> > but Stata provides a dirsep which depends on
> > your platform. 
> > 
> > In Stata 7, this is accessed by `: dirsep'
> > and in Stata 8 by `c(dirsep)'.
> 
> I don't understand what you are referring to. The problem I 
> have is that
> suppose I write a do-file that has one line that looks like this:
> 
> use :C:stata:auto, clear
> 
> This will work fine when I run on my Mac. If I try to run 
> on a PC, however,
> I will have to change the line to:
> 
> use C:\stata\auto, clear
> 
> Each time I go back and forth between the Mac & PC, I will 
> have to change
> the way the pathname is specified.

In this particular case, 

. sysuse auto 

is cross-platform. 

More generally, type this 

. di "`c(dirsep)'" 

under both platforms to see what it is. 

Alan Riley has very good suggestions, 
which make coding -dirsep- irrelevant. 

Nick 
[email protected] 
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