> Dear Gabriel:
> I am not sure if the following experience may serve, but...if you are
> working in Windows platforms...
> You are rigth. Stata does not wait for another program to finish in
> order to do the calculations inside an ado file. It is necessary to do
> Stata confirm the existance of a file. Some time ago (when the Windows
> version for Stata appeared), I had that kind of problem and the
> technical advice lead me to the following code:
>
> winexec dosprmpt.pif /c l2cvwarw
> capture confirm file signfile
> while _rc ~=0 {
> capture confirm file signfile
> }
> erase signfile
In your external (to Stata) code you must create the "signfile" as the
last step.
Hope this help
Isa�as H. Salgado-Ugarte
>
>
> Gabriel Demombynes wrote:
>
>> In the middle of my Stata program, I need to call a SAS batch
>> routine (in
>> Windows) and then have Stata wait until the SAS routine is finished,
>> so that
>> it can use part of the SAS output. However, when I use the shell
>> command to
>> call batch SAS, the SAS routine starts, and Stata doesn't wait. How
>> can I
>> get Stata to wait? I've tried using the sleep command, but then I
>> have to
>> guess how long SAS is going to take, and that time varies.
>>
>> I think what I need to do is have Stata check for the existence of
>> the SAS
>> output file as a condition for continuing, and have it continue to
>> sleep if
>> the file doesn't exist. I'm sure Stata must have a logical command
>> that
>> checks for the existence of a file, but I can't find it. I did find
>> the
>> confirm command, but I can't figure out how to use its output.
>> Please help!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Gabriel
>>
>> Gabriel Demombynes
>> Ph.D. Candidate
>> Department of Economics
>> University of California-Berkeley
>>
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