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Re: st: One help file for two program
From
Austin Nichols <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: One help file for two program
Date
Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:27:35 -0400
John Antonakis <[email protected]>:
I believe the redirection of -help ttesti- to -help ttest- is done by
-view- which is internal, accessing a file of associations made by
(maybe) Ken Higbee at Statacorp (someone more knowledgeable can
clarify). Assuming you cannot make -help- point to a different file,
you can create two identical copies of the same help file, called
john.sthlp and johni.sthlp say, each with help for both commands. Or
better: you can INCLUDE john as the whole substance of johni.sthlp
instead--see
help smcl##repeated_material
I was suggesting a different approach altogether: one command that can
handle both immediate calculations and calculations on data. You
could have two other commands called by -john- e.g. -johnd- and
-johni- but have all the help in john.sthlp and have john do all the
parsing required to determine whether to call -johnd- or -johni- as
required.
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 1:54 PM, John Antonakis <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Austin. I am not clear on what you are saying exactly; if you could
> briefly elaborate that would be great?
>
> Also, does your advice hold if one of the commands exists already (e.g.,
> ttest)? In that case is it just best to do two commands with two (same) help
> files?
> On 22.03.2013 18:48, Austin Nichols wrote:
>>
>> John Antonakis <[email protected]>
>> Sorry -- I started to write an email and then sent accidentally way
>> too early. Was going to suggest writing one command that points to
>> two versions, one immediate and one that operates on data in memory.
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Austin Nichols <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> John Antonakis <[email protected]>
>>> adoedit h
>>>
>>> shows one way:
>>>
>>> program h
>>> help `0'
>>> end
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 1:36 PM, John Antonakis <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi:
>>>>
>>>> How does one go about linking one help file to two programs (e.g., the
>>>> program, "ttest" and its immediate form, "ttesti")?
>>>>
>>>> That is, when one types "help ttest" or "help ttesti" it will open the
>>>> same
>>>> helpfile (associated with say ttest).
>>>>
>>>> I have been looking into how it is done in help files but I can't find
>>>> the
>>>> trick.
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