1. use the -log- command
2. why not just use the -codebook- command?
Rich
George Marcus wrote:
>
> I am just starting with Stata (version 8). I want to use the Data
> Describe command to list all the variables in a data set with many
> variables (well over 100). This would enable me to generate a nice
> codebook (variable names, value labels, and frequency distributions). I
> get the results in the Viewer. But, I want to save the results into a
> text file and the viewer only holds a portion of the resulting command
> (if I click on more it scrolls down but then looses the earliest
> variables). How do I can a listing of all the variables generated by
> the command into a single comprehensive file?
>
> thanks,
> George E. Marcus
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