Re: st: Stata Mac question :

[Steven Samuels <sjhsamuels@earthlink.net>]

Fred,

File Buddy will do batch changes of file types; I have changed the  
types of DO files to TEXT. In any case, you should write Leap's  
author and ask what metadata Leap uses to determine file types.

-Steve



On Jan 6, 2009, at 11:34 AM, Fred Wolfe wrote:

> Thanks Steve and Ronan,
>
> I don't have a problem searching for do or ado files in the finder.
>
> I did associate .do and .ado files with the editor, TextWrangler. Both
> of the .do and .ado files report in the finder "Kind: ASP Code File."
> If I associate .do and .ado with StataMP or TextMate the Kind does not
> change.
>
> The reason this is of interest to me is that I have been using an
> extraordinarily useful Mac application called "Leap"
> (http://www.ironicsoftware.com/leap/) that "tags" files by "File
> Types" (actually by Kind). Both .do and .ado files are lumped together
> as "ASP Code File." So I can't separate do and ado by file type. I
> have no idea where this designation came from ... perhaps from
> TextWrangler,"  but it doesn't go away.
>
> If I find out more I will report back.
>
> Fred
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Steven Samuels  
> <sjhsamuels@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Fred, perhaps the following will help you.
> >
> > -Steve
> >
> > http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2008-11/msg01067.html
> > http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2008-11/msg01093.html
> >
> >
> > On Jan 6, 2009, at 10:05 AM, Ronan Conroy wrote:
> >
> > > On 5 Ean 2009, at 19:39, Fred Wolfe wrote:
> > >
> > > > A question that perhaps the Mac Stata gurus can answer. The mac
> > > > designates .do and .ado files as having a "file kind" as "ASP Code
> > > > File." By contrast, dta file kinds is .dta and graph file kind is
> > > > .gph. The combining of .do and .ado causes me some problems in
> > > > searching. Does anyone know how to change the file kind or have  
> > > > some
> > > > other kind of work around?
> > >
> > > Have you associated them with Stata? When I do a 'get info' on a  
> > > do-file,
> > > the kind is reported as "Stata do-file". You may need to get info  
> > > and change
> > > the "open with", checking the box for "always open with".
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>
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