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Re: Re: st: proceeding beyond roctab 2000 error msg - correction


From   "Michael Blasnik" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: Re: st: proceeding beyond roctab 2000 error msg - correction
Date   Tue, 1 Jun 2004 17:49:33 -0400

I may be misunderstanding your first sentence, but _rc is set by every
command in Stata, whether you use -capture- or not.  It's just
that -capture- (quite appropriately named) captures the error code so that
Stata does not stop processing the current do/ado file.

Michael Blasnik
[email protected]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Kantor" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 3:32 PM
Subject: RE: Re: st: proceeding beyond roctab 2000 error msg - correction


> I might add that it is important to know that _rc is set only for a
command
> that occurs under
> -capture-.
>
> If you want to see the output of the command AND subsequently test _rc,
> then do...
>   capture noisily ...
>
> -- David
>


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