Eva and Roger:
Thank you for your assistance. I set up a profile.do file and used the
unaltered stcmd.ado file, but I am still encountering an error.
More specifically I wrote a program that uses the stcmd command to
reformat some Stata data sets to SAS datasets. Before I converted from
Stat Transfer 7 to 9, this program worked each time I ran it. But since
the conversion, the blue Stat Transfer command window opens and then
closes rapidly several times when I attempt to run this program, but the
files remain unaltered.
Do you have any ideas on why this may be happening?
-Josiane
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Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 10:46 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: st: Problem with ado file - stcmd
Eva Poen's solution is probably the right one. More about it (and other
technical issues with Stat/Transfer) can be found in the Technical Note
in the on-line help for -stcmd-, accessed by typing
whelp stcmd
in Stata. (It helps if you know the name of the path, on your system,
for Stat/Transfer.)
I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any further queries.
Roger
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eva Poen
Sent: 06 December 2007 15:11
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: Problem with ado file - stcmd
Josiane,
"it is not working" is very vague. Can you be more specific? How do
you use it? What happens if you issue -shell "C:\Program
Files\StatTransfer9\st"- as a command in Stata? Does it open the
Stat/Transfer command processor?
I tried it with Stat/Transfer version 7 and Stata version 9. It works
for me.
Btw, a nicer way of doing this is to leave the original stcmd.ado file
unaltered, and instead have a line
-global StatTransfer_path "C:\Program Files\StatTransfer9"-
in your profile.do.
Regards,
Eva Poen
2007/12/6, Josiane Georges <[email protected]>:
> I am trying to use stcmd.ado to run Stat Transfer directly in Stata,
but it is not working. I've tried to use what I found in the FAQ, but it
did not work. I have modified the standard stcmd.ado file to read the
following:
>
> #delim ;
> prog def stcmd;
> version 9.0;
> /*
> Run the Stat/Transfer st command
> with parameters and switches supplied by the user.
> *!Author: Roger Newson
> *!Date: 04 June 2007
> */
>
> local stpath `"$StatTransfer_path"';
> if `"`stpath'"'=="" {;
> local stpath "st";
> };
> shell "C:\Program Files\StatTransfer9\st" `0' ;
>
>
> end;
> ______________________
>
> Any have and ideas on how to fix the ado file?
>
> Josiane "Josie" Georges
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