Re: st: dealing with directories in.ado files

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 02:15 PM 6/20/2005 -0700, Florence Neymotin wrote:
> Hi, I was wondering, if you are writing a .ado file to be used as a stata
> add-on, then if you need to do a preserve restore, what is the default to
> use as the directory for this?  I wasn't sure whether "home" or the temp
> files associated with the stata program would be better here.
> Thank you,
> Florence
I'm not sure I understand the question.  You do not have to specify a 
directory when using preserve and restore.  Further, I suspect Stata 
doesn't write anything to disk, unless you have allocated more memory than 
you have, but I could be wrong about that.

If you are talking about where to store your own personally written ado 
file, I imagine c:\ado\personal (or whatever -adopath- tells you is the 
"personal" directory) is probably the most common place.

If I'm not understanding you correctly, perhaps you could clarify exactly 
what it is you want.


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