> i want to have a description file for my dataset (i.e.
> names, types, labels).
>
> so i used -desc-, logged the output, saved as a text file
> and opened it in excel. while excel did recognize that the text is
> formatted as a table, some of the label names were too long and they
> occupied more than one line.
>
> is there a way to make sure that the output of -desc-
> is displayed such that each variable occupies only one row?
I think -findit descsave- might do what you want (though I never tried it).
Daniel
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