Re: st: changing directories within stata

[Fred Wolfe <fwolfe@arthritis-research.org>]

At 12:35 PM 2/3/2003 +0100, you wrote:
> Dear listers, simple but failed to figure it out. Below is a snap shot of my
> hard disk. I have no trouble moving down from c to p_1 within stata,
> however, what I am failing to do is to move a level or two higher (eg from
> p_1 back to projects, without typing the full path of projects)
>
>
>                  C:\
>                  |
>                  +----+
>                       |
>                    stata
>                       |
>                       +----+-------------+
>                            |             |
>                          projects       reading
>                            |
>                            +---+----+
>                                |    |
>                               p_1  p_2
>
> Any help will be appreciated

You can use a global macro to identify your path. Here are some examples:

global static c:/statdata/static/
global pdox c:/statdata/pdox222f/
global sql c:/statdata/sql222f/
global amgen c:/statdata/amgen/

Fred Wolfe


> Ronnie
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