Thanks Nick, -file- appears to be the answer. Memories of Fortran, Pascal, Algol 68 et al. come flooding back!
One further question - I would tend to believe that writing to files is probably used by programmers in Stata (you may disagree). Would it be an idea to have a cross reference to the -log- command from -file- (and vice-versa) in the Stata Help facility?
Dave
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Subject: st: RE: RE: RE: Logging output directly to a log file without
using the viewer
Check out the -file- command.
Nick
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David Winter
> Apologies - Results window
Nick Cox
> I don't understand this question.
>
> Whether you look at a file, be that a .log file or
> any other text file, in the Viewer is entirely up to
> you.
>
> I know no sense in which keeping a .log file
> is to be thought of as sending it to the Viewer.
>
> Do you mean the Results window?
David Winter
> > I have a rather complex .do file that runs some analyses, the
> > output of which I send to a log file. As a new Stata
> > user/programmer the .do file is probably not the most
> > efficient so I use the -quietly- option.
> >
> > Is there anyway I can send output (from -display as result-
> > for example ) directly to a log file without displaying it in
> > a viewer as well, whilst using the -quietly- option? This is
> > my programmer head talking!
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