Steve Samuels <sjsamuels@gmail.com> wrote:
> The one item still making me hesitate is the directory issue. When I
> double-click a do-file on a PC, it runs that file using the present
> directory as the default, which is usually what I want. But on a Mac, I
> still have to set the directory name from within a do-file, which means a
> program written on one Mac won't necessarily work on another Mac if
> they have different directory trees.
If you double-click on a .do (*), .dta, or .gph file from the Finder on a Mac,
Stata changes the current working directory to the directory that the file is
located in. For example, if your current working directory is your home
directory and you double-click on a .dta file in your Documents directory,
Stata will change the current working directory to the Documents directory.
Are you saying you don't want that to happen?
* Stata can open a .do file that is double-clicked in the Finder in the
Do-file Editor if you set the preference to do so.
-- Kerry Kammire, StataCorp
kkammire@stata.com
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