On 9/22/03 16:06, Danielle H. Ferry wrote
>On 9/22/03 3:56 PM, "Nick Cox" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Danielle H. Ferry
>>>
>>> Not sure if there is a solution to this, but I figured I'd
>>> throw it out there. I have an external hard drive which I use on both a
>>> Mac (OS X) and a PC (Win XP). [snip...]
>I don't understand what you are referring to. The problem I have is that
>suppose I write a do-file that has one line that looks like this:
>
>use :C:stata:auto, clear
>
>This will work fine when I run on my Mac. If I try to run on a PC, however,
>I will have to change the line to:
>
>use C:\stata\auto, clear
A couple of things:
Alan Riley's suggestion of using / to separate directories is fine, but
there might be a little trouble if you follow it literally, because
. on the boot drive, the prefix to the path is /
. on an external drive named Tucholsky, the prefix to the path is
/Volumes/Tucholsky
Otherwise using macros in the profile.do file is the way to go - I've
done it forever on data I drag back and forth from home to work on
machines with different drive names.
Bill
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