RE: st: sysdir set for do-files or datasets ?

[David Kantor <dkantor@jhu.edu>]

Just to add in my two cents' worth...

I find these little programs useful for moving up, over, or to the 
root.  You can make them into ados, but I just put them into my 
profile.do.  (That saves disk space, though that is not really a problem 
any more.) The amount of typing they save is small, but they make 
navigation natural, as I think of going up or over in the tree.  (They 
don't save much typing; they save thinking.)  I could have also made a 
-down- program, but it would just be the same as -cd-, so I didn't bother 
with it.

Incidentally, I have arranged for the same commands to work in my command 
prompt.

-- David

capture prog drop up
prog def up
/* move up in the directory tree */
cd ..
end

capture prog drop over
prog def over
/* move over in the directory tree */
cd ..\\`1'
end

capture prog drop root
prog def root
/* move to the root in the directory tree */
cd \\
end


David Kantor
Institute for Policy Studies
Johns Hopkins University
dkantor@jhu.edu
410-516-5404

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