st: Re: programming a version number check

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

Mark wants to find the version of another ado-file. If the other ado  
is under your control, write it so that if called with the 'version'  
option it does nothing but squawk r(version) or e(version). If it  
isn't, but it does return r (version)or e(version),  capture its call  
and call it with some dummy args.  If the other ado-file is not under  
your control and it doesn't return its version (e.g. official  
ivreg.ado), you're out of luck.

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html


On Sep 26, 2005, at 2:33 AM, statalist-digest wrote:


> Using -findfile- to get the path to the ado, opening the ado with - 
> file-,
> and then messing about with file i/o is unappealing, though I  
> suppose it
> could be made to work.  Is there anything easier?
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