st: Error message: input too long; after lab def

[Tobias Hubert <hubert@zuma-mannheim.de>]

Hi,

my problem is the following:

After reading in a very big data-set of the German Mikrozensus with an 
.dct file, I used a do-file. First I  defined all variable labels and 
then I assigned the labels to the variables with a normal do-file. There 
are about 450 variables with partly a large number of values.

After some time the command sequence - label define - stops and the 
message "input too long" occurs.
What can be the reason for this?
Stata Version 8.2 for Windows.
Memory is set to the maximum.
Dividing the label-define sequence in four parts and then assigning the 
parts immediatly isn't a solution either, the process stops at the same 
point.

Thanks!

Tobias


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