st: Re: r(603) error

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

I'd see if the file name were legal and you had write access to the 
directory.  Have you checked to make sure your operating system allows an 
equals sign in a file name?

Michael Blasnik
michael.blasnik@verizon.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregory M. Kreischer" <Gregory.M.Kreischer@Dartmouth.EDU>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 3:23 PM
Subject: st: r(603) error



> I have been having trouble with one particular command of a do-file which
> simply has me miffed. The line "save
> "`output'/`country'`congress'novotes=naysfinal.dta", replace" simply
> attempts to save a file into a folder that I created. Stata stops at this
> point and returns the r(603) error, saying that the file cannot be opened.
> This makes even less sense because I have another do-file that is almost
> identical that has no problem with the same line (the only difference
> being the name of the file). None of the help so far has been useful.
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