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RE: st: -choke-
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E Michael Foster <[email protected]>
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RE: st: -choke-
Date
Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:52:16 +0000
Yea, this has probably reached the stage of silly -- but yea, I was trying to keep it from showing an ugly return code
What I had wanted was for stata to stop executing (and remain open if running interactively
When I say interactively, I mean I launch it from ultraedit using
C:\progra~2\Stata12\StataMP-64.exe do "%f"
In true batch mode, the command has the /e flag --
E. Michael Foster
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Austin Nichols
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 11:23 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: -choke-
E Michael Foster <[email protected]> :
Perhaps
error 5000
or somesuch? Do you object to the display of an unadorned return code?
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:18 PM, E Michael Foster <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for taking the time to attend to a fairly frivolous point, but
> at this point, I'm in for a penny, in for a pound, as they say
>
>>So I think it's time to define chock.ado.
>>
>>program define choke
>> di "Mike says to stop!!!!"
>> qui stoprightnow
>> end
>>
>>This doesn't quite work because I don't want anything other than "Mike
>>says to stop!!!" in the log.
>>
>>I'd like to suppress the error message:
>> unrecognized command: stoprightnow
>> r(199);
>>yet, if I use -cap- execution proceeds.
>>
>>Suggestions?
>
>>>> Couldn't you just have an -exit- command?
>
> -exit- doesn't quite do it either. IN some instances, I'm running
> code in stata while it's open and don't want the program to close Any ideas?
>
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