Thanks Neil,
that helped a lot!
Hans
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Re: st: Unix file mode
> I am using Stata8 on a Unix machine. 
> 
> I wonder if it is possible, when a do-file saves some data, to set the
> file mode, i.e. the permissions whether the file is for instance read
> only?
> 
> Is there any trick within Stata or do I have to do this manually
> within my Unix. 
> 
> Thanks for all suggestions  in advance. 
You can make a call to the shell from within the do-file to do whatever 
you want.
Assuming you are saving a file called test.dta, then after its been saved 
you can change 
permissions to it by....
save test, replace
!chmod 0644 test.dta
* Or change ownership...
!chown users:users
* Or if you wanted to save space...
!bzip2 test.dta
HTH's,
Neil
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