You are all right. My version of stata was not
updated, now I can see the 'intercooled' option. Sorry
about posting this trivial problem. And thank you all
for your help.
--- Elizabeth Allred <[email protected]> wrote:
> When I type -help saveold- in I get this. It does
> show intercooled.
>
>
> help for saveold
> manual: [R] save
>
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> Save datasets as version 7 format
>
> saveold [filename] [, nolabel replace all
> intercooled ]
>
>
> Description
> saveold stores the dataset currently in memory on
> disk under the name
> filename. The dataset is saved in
> Stata's version 7 format.
>
>
> Options
>
> nolabel omits value labels from the saved dataset.
> The associations
> between variables and value label
> names, however, are saved along with the dataset and
> variable labels.
> It is unlikely that you will ever want to specify
> this option.
>
> replace permits save to overwrite an existing
> dataset. replace may not
> be abbreviated.
>
> all is for use by programmers. If specified,
> e(sample) will be saved
> with the dataset.
>
> intercooled instructs Stata/SE to write the dataset
> in the Intercooled
> Stata format, after verifying that
> there are no variables longer than str80. You
> should rarely need this
> option; see help SpecialEdition for details.
>
>
>
> edoardo masset wrote:
>
> > When I type help saveold, I get the options
> below,i.e.
> > the option 'intercooled' does not appear. The
> problem
> > is I dont have the manuals with me, and I thought
> that
> > displaying all options (including 'intercooled'),
> if
> > this is possible, when typing 'help saveold' could
> be
> > useful.
> >
> >
> > Options
> >
> > nolabel omits value labels from the saved
> dataset.
> > The associations between
> > variables and value label names, however,
> are
> > saved along with the dataset
> > and variable labels. It is unlikely that
> you
> > will ever want to specify this
> > option.
> >
> > replace permits save to overwrite an existing
> > dataset. replace may not be
> > abbreviated.
> >
> > all is for use by programmers. If specified,
> > e(sample) will be saved with the
> > dataset.
> >
> >
> >
> > --- Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >>edoardo masset
> >>
> >>
> >>>As a short comment. A full list of all available
> >>>options for each command when using help, would
> >>>be...helpful.
> >>
> >>I am unclear what you mean here.
> >>
> >>It's my understanding that that's exactly what the
> >>help
> >>tries to do. What in general or in particular
> >>does not satisfy this criterion?
> >>
> >>Nick
> >>[email protected]
> >>
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