I don't know a way of stopping Stata from 
adding headers and footers. Stripping them 
after the fact would be automatable in 
a good scripting language, in a good text
editor or in Stata itself. 
There are ways of creating files without 
using logs, but better advice would depend
on knowing more about what you are doing. 
Nick 
[email protected] 
Thurlow, James
 
> Question 1
> This might seem like a simple/strange issue to be having with 
> Stata, but I'm
> trying to create a text file with results that are saved in 
> memory. At the
> moment I'm creating a log file and quietly displaying to the log in
> comma-separated format, which later allows me to read in the 
> log file using
> the 'insheet' command. I'm sure there's a better way to do 
> this. One thing
> that is making my life difficult are the headers and footers 
> that Stata
> automatically attaches to its log files. My question is this: 
> Is there a way
> to prevent Stata from placing headers and footers in log files?
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