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st: unzip problems in Stata 11


From   "William M. Doerner" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: unzip problems in Stata 11
Date   Fri, 5 Nov 2010 14:53:23 -0400

Greetings!  In Stata 10, I can use the unzipfile command without
problems.  In Stata 11, I am getting a variety of error messages like
"no variables defined" when I enclose a filename with double
quotations (same command I am using in Stata 10).  All I type is

unzipfile "ABC 123.zip", replace

An obvious workaround is to rename all of my zipped files to have no
spaces and then rerun the code.  However, I was wondering if there is
an option or an undocumented trick that I might not know about so I
can avoid extra coding.   I noticed there were one or two posts a few
years ago about problems with double quotes in MS DOS, but they did
not deal with the unzipfile command.  Plus, there is no problem in
Stata 10 so I was wondering why this became an issue in Stata 11.

Thanks in advance for any advice!

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Will Doerner

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Florida State University
Department of Economics
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