Re: st: manipulate built-in stata commands

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

No need to write a program. Just use the -quietly- prefix.

Nick


On 25 Nov 2011, at 13:47, mailjp@gmx.net wrote:

> is there an example of how to build a wrapper around some command to  
> modify what it produces?
> fact is i don't want to add functionality but want to remove  
> some...nevertheless thanks for your help maarten!
> i actually want generate not to produce the line "(xyz changes made)".
>
> thanks for your help!
>
> raoul
>
>
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> > Datum: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:26:19 +0000
> > Von: Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>
> > An: "\'statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu\'" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu 
> > >
> > Betreff: RE: st: manipulate built-in stata commands
>
> > As I said in my posting, that's fine and what many people do.
> >
> > You could build a wrapper around -generate- that takes what it  
> > produces
> > and modifies it.
> >
> > Nick
> > n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
> >
> >
> > Jakob Pohlisch/Raoul
> >
> > sorry but it seems i haven't made myself clear. My fault. its not  
> > that i
> > wanted to change the code and thats it. i wanted to get the code so  
> > i could
> > make my own .ado-file. if that is illegal i'am sorry but i really  
> > didn't
> > know that. there are so many "unoffical" .ado-files out there, that  
> > i thought
> > i could change some of them the way i need them - for my personal  
> > use...i
> > didn't mean to hurt someone copyrights or something like that. for  
> > sure i
> > didn't just wanted to change the code, but wanted to change it and  
> > create my
> > "own" .ado-file like myowngenerate.ado. too bad that this isn't
> > possible...
> > >
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