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st: mata" crashes Stata


From   "German Rodriguez" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: mata" crashes Stata
Date   Thu, 2 Feb 2006 16:01:00 -0500

Dear stata listers,

Be careful not to type mata" when you mean mata: (the keys are next to each
other), as this appears to crash Stata and you may lose your work. 

I found the problem on Windows XP running 9.1 born 20 Feb 2006. I replicated
it on another machine (still!) running the 15 Sep 2005 build, so I believe
the problem is not new. 

In case you think the 'OS for dummies' may be at fault here, I found that
Solaris was only a bit more graceful in telling me I had a mismatched quote
before crashing. 

Stata 8.2 says "unrecognized command:  mata" and stays happy (but of course
blissfully unaware of the wonders of mata) on both platforms.

Cheers,
Germ�n


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