How do I send program output to Technical Support?

We cannot, in general, debug programs for you, but there are exceptions. Perhaps there is evidence that the problem lies with a Stata-written program.

In any case, Stata can trace the execution of programs, and, in some cases, it is a trace of the execution that we need. These traces, however, can be long. If, after initially emailing us, we request a trace, use the following procedure:

 . log using junk, replace
 . about
 . update
 . sysdir
 . adopath
 . pwd
 . describe
 . summarize
 . *
 . * so far, this is the same procedure you would use to send us any type
 . * of output
 . *
 . discard
 . set more off
 . set trace on
 . command causing problem
 . log close
 . * now we tell Stata to stop tracing programs:
 . set trace off
 . set more on

These commands will create the file junk.smcl, which you can then email to us.