A quick comment on the use of the winexec procedure to call Stat-Transfer.
When this is done, be aware that Stat-Transfer runs outside of Stata.
Because of this, Stata and Stat-Transfer run simultaneously, not necessarily
sequentially. The implication of this is that a Stata program may use the
output of the Stat-Transfer as a input, but Stat-Transfer might not have
finished running by the time that Stata is looking for the input. The only
way that I found to avoid a problem is to pause Stata.
Does anybody have any other thoughts?
Bryan
-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Cox [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 12:03 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: RE: re: Running Stat/Transfer from Stata Command ?
. findit stat-transfer
points to Roger Newson's -stcmd- on SSC.
Nick
[email protected]
Ian Watson
> Ha Thai Son <[email protected]> asked:
>
> HTS> I'm using Stata 8 and Stat/Stransfer 6. Any one help me to run
> HTS> Stat/Stransfer from Stata Command to transfer, for exp.
> I want to transfer
> HTS> C:\Data\data.xls to C:\Data\data.dta.
>
> Try the following steps (under a Windows platform).
>
> 1. create a textfile called data.stc with the following lines:
>
> copy data.xls data.dta /y /o
> exit
>
> (Note that the /y replaces without asking, in case you need to run it
> several times and the /o optimises the storage. Also leave out exit if
> you want to watch to see what happens, then manually manually close
> the window.)
>
>
> 2. from inside Stata run the following command:
>
>
> winexec "c:\program files\stattransfer5\st" c:\data\data.stc
>
> (Set your path to stat transfer as appropriate).
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