Re: st: Stata 10.1 or 11.1 does not recognise // comment

["Michael N. Mitchell" <Michael.Norman.Mitchell@gmail.com>]

I believe this style of comment is only permitted within a .do file. I suspect you might 
be pasting the commands directly into the "command window", in which this style of 
commenting is not permitted.

Michael N. Mitchell
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On 2010-12-09 6.19 AM, DE SOUZA Eric wrote:
> The error I get is here below. The commands are from Kti Baum's post re:
> generating a word table including the first stage regression(s),
>
> Any idea what is happening?
>
> . // eststo, esttab from Ben Jann's estout (SSC)
> unrecognized command:  / invalid command name
> r(199);
> .
> . // ivreg2 from Baum/Schaffer/Stillman (SSC)
> unrecognized command:  / invalid command name
> r(199);
>
> . // use a filename with the proper extension to create a Word table
> unrecognized command:  / invalid command name
> r(199);
>
> Eric de Souza
> College of Europe
> Dyver 11
> Brugge (Bruges)
> Belgium
>
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