Re: st: RE: Stata 9/10 compatibility

[Fred Wolfe <fwolfe@arthritis-research.org>]

Thanks, Bill for all of the information.

Granted this is a perhaps a very minor issue. You write,

"If an ado-file is written in Stata 10, its corresponding help file 
should be named using the .sthlp extension.  Stata 9 won't be able to 
find the help file, but Stata 9 won't be able to run a Stata 10 
ado-file anyway."

But suppose we are updating ado and help files that will run in Stata 
9 (or just updating a help file) while using Stata 10. In that case 
Stata 9 users can't see or read that help file. In our own internal 
ado and help files, we send updated files to outside research 
collaborators will may still have Stata 9. In such circumstances -fixsthlp-
would be useful.



Fred Wolfe
National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases
Wichita, Kansas
Tel +1 316 263 2125
fwolfe@arthritis-research.org

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