I enjoy the odd game of knocking DOS but I think Kit is confusing two
distinct things here.
1. Lengths of global and local macro names.
2. Lengths of filenames. That clearly had implications for command names
defined by .ados.
I don't see any connection between the two, except in the most general
and tenuous sense that when memory was tighter there was a real
advantage in keeping everything short and undemanding. Every byte was
precious.
Nick
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Christopher Baum
Sergiy said
Sadly, Mata optimize is not available in Stata 9 or is it undocumented
there?
As help whatsnew9to10 shows, it was added in 10.0. Time to upgrade!
One problem that I've noticed with -ridder- is that it does not
understand global names longer than 8 symbols,...
You have DOS and Bill Gates to thank for that. Anything written before
Stata abandoned DOS support involves clumsy eight-character names on
official commands (like wntstmvq).
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