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RE: st: Re: strange wildcard action


From   "FEIVESON, ALAN H. (AL) (JSC-SK) (NASA)" <[email protected]>
To   "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: Re: strange wildcard action
Date   Tue, 28 Oct 2003 08:17:41 -0600

David - You have found it! Here's what I got:
Thanks for your suggestion

AL Feiveson


To Alan Riley - Please disregard my last message - David has discovered the
problem.



 Volume in drive D has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is A4C1-D11C

 Directory of D:\satfiles

10/28/2003  08:15a      <DIR>                          .
10/28/2003  08:15a      <DIR>                          ..
08/03/1999  08:40a               1,480                 satish.ado
06/27/1997  07:29a               4,281                 satish.dta
08/20/2001  03:21p              41,108 SATISH~1.DTA    satish1_aug01.dta
08/05/1999  03:17p                 464                 satish2.do
08/21/2001  11:41a              41,108 SATISH~2.DTA    satish2_aug01.dta
08/21/2001  02:24p              41,108 SATISH~3.DTA    satish3_aug01.dta
08/24/2001  11:48a              41,108 SATISH~4.DTA    satish4_aug01.dta
08/23/2001  03:28p              59,042 SA75C2~1.DTA    satish5_aug01.dta
08/24/2001  09:23a              59,042 SAF5C2~1.DTA    satish6_aug01.dta
08/24/2001  11:44a              59,042 SA76C2~1.DTA    satish7_aug01.dta
08/24/2001  02:26p              59,042 SAF6C3~1.DTA    satish8_aug01.dta
09/13/2000  07:54a               4,759 SA16C0~1.DTA    satish_091300.dta
08/21/2001  02:24p             117,908 SA59C5~1.DTA    satish_aug01.dta
12/17/2002  07:17a               2,747 SA3C4E~1.DTA
satish_coll_121602.dta
12/17/2002  07:20a               5,591 SAB9AD~1.DTA
satish_long_121602.dta
08/24/2001  02:47p                 140 SATISH~1.DO     satish_powsum.do
12/16/2002  03:26p               2,850 SA37CE~1.DTA
satish_wide_121602.dta
10/28/2003  08:15a                   0                 temp2.lis
              18 File(s)        540,820 bytes
               2 Dir(s)   7,926,353,920 bytes free






-----Original Message-----
From: David Kantor [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 3:33 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: Re: strange wildcard action


At 01:38 PM 10/27/2003 -0600, Alan Riley wrote:
>[...]
>
>   1) This problem can only be seen when some very particular path
>      structure or combination of file names exists.  If we were to
>      exactly recreate Al's file and directory structure, we would
>      be able to reproduce the problem.  We could then try to find
>      a workaround.

Just a thought: This may be a result of -dir- (whether it be in Stata or in 
the command prompt) looking at both the WIN32 file names and the DOS short 
alias names. Perhaps some of Al's files,  such as satish2_aug01.dta, have 
DOS aliases that begin "saf".  This is unlikely, as I would expect the 
alias to begin "sat", but it is not impossible.  In any case, the presence 
of these alias names can cause some surprises.

(To see alias names, type
  dir ....  /x
at the command prompt.)


-- David

David Kantor
Institute for Policy Studies
Johns Hopkins University
[email protected]
410-516-5404

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