----- Original Message -----
From: [email protected] (Vince Wiggins, StataCorp)
Date: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 11:51 am
Subject: Re: st: US state level boundary files available
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> 
> Discovering what was happening here was a bit challenging, but the 
> realproblem was actually quite simple and so is the solution.  
> With so many
> separate regions to draw Stata was simply running out of memory 
> and the
> solution is to set the memory size larger -- -set mem 20m- worked 
> fine for me.
> 
> The reason neither Scott nor I could immediately diagnose this is 
> that the
> -tmap- program placed a -capture- in front of the -graph- command and
> "captured" the standard error message -graph- tried to report; a 
> message that
> would have suggested the solution. 
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Great!!  Thanks Vince, for solving this problem (and Maurizio for creating -tmap-).
Scott
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