Your outermost .do file could be
program mydo
do whatever
di c(current_date) " " c(current_time)
end
so that when -whatever- finishes, you get
a printing of date and time. You can build
opening and closing a log into such a do file.
Nick
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P.S. as the 0th author of -findit-
I was sad to read
> As always, I have used "findit" to no avail.
but I hope that you mean
> As always, I have used "findit", but to no avail.
Chih-Mao Hsieh
> I regularly program .do files that take hours or days to
> run. Sometimes they return error messages and I have to
> debug them. I wonder if there is a way to (1) output a
> date and time at the time an error message appears (which
> invariably stops my .do file from continuing), and (2)
> close a log file that was started (preferably including the
> error message and date/time; this allows me to access the
> log file remotely to check its status)...
>
> As always, I have used "findit" to no avail.
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