Gary what I mean with "saved as txt file" is that I have the file
(called brook.txt) with txt extension, but inside the log it is
possible to see that it was generated using smcl (log:
{res}C:\data\brooks02.smcl)
2009/6/11 Gary Longton <[email protected]>:
> <>
> If this is truly a smcl log file, you should be able to use Stata's
> translator (see -help translate-) to convert to a text file without the
> directives (use the smcl2txt translator).
>
> It's not clear to me what you mean by "saved as a txt file". A SMCL file is
> just an ASCII text file that includes smcl directives. I believe a SMCL
> file needs to have a .smcl extension for the viewer to read it as such, i.e.
> to interpret rather than display the included directives.
> If it has a .smcl extension and you are unable to open in it the viewer (eg.
> with -view <filename.smcl>- from the command line ) without a resulting
> display of the included directives, then I suspect you will have trouble
> with the translator also.
>
> - Gary
>
> Rodrigo Briceño wrote:
>>
>> Dear Stata Listers. Few days ago I received a log file with a set of
>> results from a consultant. The file was saved as a txt file, but the
>> contents of the file are still keeping some SMCL references. This
>> happened because although the file was saved as txt, it was generated
>> as a log in SMCL. (For example:
>> like {smcl}
>> {com}{sf}{ul off}{txt}{.-}
>> log: {res}C:\data\brooks02.smcl
>> {txt}log type: {res}smcl
>> {txt}opened on: {res}26 May 2009, 10:40:39)
>>
>> The thing is that I tried to open the file in Stata 9.2 with a viewer
>> and all the results are mixed with this set of symbols and signs. I
>> tried saving the file as .smcl, but this didn't work. My question to
>> you is that if it is possible to get rid of the symbols or otherwise
>> being able to see the log in a nice format.
>>
>> I don't know which version of Stata the consultant used, what I know
>> is that locate him is a neverending task.
>>
>> Thanks for your gently response.
>>
>>
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