Re: Re: st: how to avoid absolute path names in do-files?

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

I wouldn't use local macros because they would need to be repeated in every 
do file (that's why they're called local), making it more difficult to 
change.  Instead, I would assign the paths to global macros in a single 
small do file (mydirs.do), e.g.,

global data1dir "d:/projectdir/data1"
global data2dir "d:/projectdir/data2"
...

then I would either enter the command -run mydirs- in profile.do (as long as 
mydirs.do is in you default Stata directory, or else use a fixed path to 
point to it), or start each do file in the project with the command -run 
mydirs-, as long as all of the do files are in the same directory as the 
mydirs.do.

Michael Blasnik
michael.blasnik@verizon.net

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