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st: RE: outreg has curious problem with filenames containg spaces


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: outreg has curious problem with filenames containg spaces
Date   Thu, 13 Jan 2005 17:26:46 -0000

As Kit Baum might say, you could re-consider your 
commitment to an inferior OS. 

Alternatively, try 

forward slashes, not backward slashes 
(Stata will understand) 

compound double quotes 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Daniel Egan
 
> I am using outreg, and came across what probably is a sign of its age
> - even using quotations around a filename I wish to -outreg- to, I
> return an error of
> -invalid ' and'-
> 
> what is strange is that it only occurs on the second call when
> appending to a file e.g.
> 
> -outreg betas using "C:\here and there\file.txt", text replace-
> 
> works fine, but 
> 
> -outreg betas using "C:\here and there\file.txt", text append-
> 
> returns the error message " invalid ' and'  "
> 
> any suggestions, aside from altering the folder I save to?
> 

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