st: re: Can Stata access the SGE_TASK_ID environment

[Christopher Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

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Jonathan said

Many thanks to those who replied. As suggested, I contacted Stata  
Techinical Support. In case its of use to others, they explained to me  
that the env function could be used:
 local x : env SGE_TASK_ID
 to save an environment variable to a local macro.

Good catch. This is one of the 'macro extended functions' accessible  
from
help extended fcn
which I had forgotten about.
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