st: Can a non-programmer permanently save the results of estimation?

[Stephen Mennemeyer <smennemeyer@ms.soph.uab.edu>]

I am a fairly experienced Stata user but not a Stata programmer, so my 
apologies if this is a bit elementary. How do I permanently save the 
results of models so that I can replay/reuse models after rebooting my 
machine?

The user command "estimates store  name"  seems to only keep the results 
of  a model somewhere in memory for replaying/reusing/displaying  during 
a single active session. If I estimate some models, invoke the 
"estimates store" command, save the dataset, exit Stata and come back 
later, issuing the command "estimates restore name" does not seem to 
bring back any of my previously estimated models. I would like to be 
able to issue a command such as "estimates store name....filename" so 
that I can do the things described in [U] 23.3 through [U]23.8 even if I 
exit Stata and come back later.  For example, if I estimate a model with 
xtprobit or gllamm that takes several hours to run and then I decide 
next week that I want to play with it some more, I have to re-estimate 
the model.

I presume (correct??) that  I can do what I want  if I invest in 
learning to program Stata using the _estimates, ereturn, sreturn  etc. 
commands. Is there no easier way? 
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Stephen T. Mennemeyer Ph.D.
University of Alabama at Birmingham
School of Public Health
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