st: New package: doubletofloat; also new floattolong.hlp

[David Kantor <dkantor@jhu.edu>]

Hi everyone.

Thanks to Kit Baum, the module doubletofloat is now available on SSC.

This is a companion/extension to -compress-.  It recasts (where possible 
without loss of precision) double variables to float.

Another related and similar module is floattolong, which was issued back in 
August. This now has a revised .hlp file.

Both of these are very simple, but possibly useful. They are meant to be 
used with -compress-; they do a few things I wish -compress- did.

-- David

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

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