The -lcolor()- point is explained in another posting.
I can't reproduce your other error. This works for me
in 8.2 and 9.0. Is what you typed exactly equivalent?
sysuse auto
scatter mpg weight, text(41 2650 "top car") ///
|| scatteri 41 2100 41 2500 , recast(line) ///
|| scatteri 41 2100 41.3 2200, recast(line) ///
|| scatteri 41 2100 40.7 2200, recast(line) legend(off)
Nick
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Eric G. Wruck
> Like Raphael, I also obtained an the invalid option error (on
> lcolor). I then took out the lcolor & recast was flagged as
> a syntax error. I tried this both with version statements
> 8.2 & 9.0 & obtained the same results both times. In the
> past I have labored with hyphens, greater-than & less-than
> symbols to try to create "arrows". This approach worked ok
> but was somewhat unsatisfactory -- but not so bad so as to
> tempt me to bring my data over to DeltaGraph. I see Nick
> Winter has pointed out pcarrow in Stata 9 & I look forward to
> familiarizing myself with that.
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