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Re: st: Compress and saveold


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Compress and saveold
Date   Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:41:13 +0000 (GMT)

--- Gauri Khanna <[email protected]> wrote:
> I sent a stata dataset created in version 9.2 to a stata 8 user who
> ran into the 80 characters limit problem for string variables. As
> you know, Stata 8 only supports 80 characters on string variables
> whereas the dataset I created in version 9.2 has a couple of string
> variables that are in excess of 80.
> 
> 1. So I tried to compress these variables. But when I look at them
> again using the -describe- command I find no difference in their
> length? Does that mean that these variables are not compressed or
> cannot be compressed?




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