Basia Zaba
> 
> I have Stata 7 on my laptop at home and am trying to help a 
> colleague with a data analysis problem, need to 
> do this urgently but this is a public holiday weekend in UK 
> so have no access to usual workplace resources 
> till Tuesday.  I think she has sent me the data file saved 
> as a version 8 file, when I try to load it I get a message 
> saying " file not in Stata format".  Is there a utility 
> that I can use to translate the file that she has sent me into 
> something that I can read in Stata 7?
If your diagnosis is correct, one utility which might solve this 
problem is to email the 8-readable .dta to me. 
The fee for this will be GBP 100,000.00. 
Nick 
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