Note: This FAQ is for users of Stata 5, an older version of Stata. It is not
relevant for more recent versions.
Stata 5: Miscellaneous Macintosh questions
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Stata 5: Miscellaneous Macintosh questions
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Author
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Chinh Nguyen, StataCorp
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Date
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June 1997
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Stata 5: Why won't my .dta file show up in the Open
dialog?
The type and creator is not set to Stata. Select Set File Type...
from the File menu and select your .dta file. Confirm it has the
type and creator set correctly either by using the file (double-clicking it)
or by looking in the folder and verifying that the icon is a Stata DTA
icon.
Stata 5: Can you suggest a text editor?
Use either TeachText or SimpleText (SimpleText is just a newer version of
TeachText. All Macs come with one of them). They are both limited to
handling just 32K of text. If you want to load your log files into a text
editor and it is larger than 32K, you will have to use another text editor
or a wordprocessor.
Word processors are not, in general, your best choice for editing data or
programs because the same features that make them good for editing documents
make them slow and cumbersome for editing simple text. One of our users
recommends the text editor BBEdit Lite. It is able to handle large files
and is freeware. The full, professional, supported version of BBEdit is
available from
http://www.barebones.com.
The default type/creator for a Stata log file is SimpleText/TeachText.
There is currently no way to change the default type/creator Stata saves its
logs as.
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