SUBJECT:  A utility for surveying Stata-format data sets
AUTHOR:   Timothy J. Schmidt
	  Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
SUPPORT:  816-881-2199
 
COMMENTS:
The dtainfo utility consists of an ado-file, dtainfo.ado, its associated
help-file, dtainfo.hlp, and an executable file, either dtasurv.exe for DOS
systems or dtasurvu for Sparc systems (other Unix systems will need to compile
the source found in ./source).  Copy dtainfo.ado and dtainfo.hlp
either to the current directory or to any directory in the ado-path.  Copy
the appropriate executable file either to the current directory or to any
directory in the PATH. From inside Stata, on-line help is available, type
`help dtainfo'.   The C source code for dtasurv is in the directory
.\SOURCE.  The data sets used in the examples are in the directory .\DTA.

NOTE:
In last-minute testing on a SparcStation IPC running SunOS 4.1.3,
we (StataCorp) found that dtasurvu would crash with a core dump
occasionally.  This may be due to running it on SunOS 4.1.3 rather
than Solaris.  Also, please note that other Unix systems may not
have the appropriate include files to compile dtasurvu.