You are not following Richard Williams' recommendation here,
so it is not surprising that it didn't work for you.
dir /s
is not a Stata command, but a command to the operating
system. To run the command, you need to work within
a shell, e.g.
. ! <change to OS prompt>
dir /s c:\stata8\ado\*.ado
exit <return to Stata>
Two different problems are
1. Your files appear to be somewhere else.
. adopath
may help here.
2. A mere list of filenames is not very informative.
It will include many files that Stata uses, but that
you won't ever do.
Nick
[email protected]
Dan Richard
>
> thank you very much,professor Williams.
>
> although "dir/s c:\stata8\ado\*.ado" doesn't work, i really
> appreciate your
> help.
>
> i want to familiar all of the descriptions about ado-commands
> in a list
> style,that's my aim. now i think i have to use different
> approach to it. by
> the contents the soft provided,i can get the ado-commands&help stata
> co.installed and updated; by input "ado d",i can get the ado-commands
> written by others and installed by me. thank you again.
>
> the below is the result when i input "dir/s c:\stata8\ado\*.ado":
>
> . dir/s c:\stata8\ado\*.ado
> invalid 'c'
> r(198);
>
> . dir c:\stata8\ado\*.ado
> file not found
>
> . ls c:\stata8\ado\*.ado
> file not found
>
> . dir "c:\stata8\ado\*.ado"
> file not found
>
> . dir "c:\stata8\ado\" *.ado
> invalid '*'
> r(198);
>
> . dir "c:\stata8\ado\" .ado
> invalid '.ado'
> r(198);
>
> . dir "c:\stata8\ado\" ado
> invalid 'ado'
> r(198);
>
>
>
> >From: Richard Williams <[email protected]>
> >Reply-To: [email protected]
> >To: [email protected], [email protected]
> >Subject: Re: st: how can i get the list of ado-files in base
> and update
> folder?
> >Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 15:03:42 -0500
> >
> >At 07:16 PM 6/11/2005 +0000, =?gb2312?B?ta0g1LbF9A==?= wrote:
> >>hi,everyone,
> >>
> >>i met a problem,and who can help me?
> >>
> >>when i input// .ado //in the command window, the LIST of ado-files
> >>i've installed is showed. but when i input// . ado,
> >>from("c:\stata8\ado") //, there is no any reaction and i cannot
> >>see the list of ado-files stata co.'s installed and updated. how
> >>can i see them? my meaning is that i want see all of the ado files
> >>in one list.
> >>
> >>thanks
> >>Richard
> >
> >It is going to be an awfully long list, and you might be better off
> >just doing it from the operating system. But, from within Stata,
> >you could type
> >
> >shell
> >
> >and then, at the command prompt, type
> >
> >dir/s c:\stata8\ado\*.ado
> >
> >There are various directory utilities available - perhaps one of
> >them will work better for you.
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