st: Saving estimate parms

["Salkov, Rick" <Rick.Salkov@eia.doe.gov>]

I am running large models and need the capability of saving model estimate parms to a hard disk file and retrieving them.  All the Stata Procs that I can find including -estimates- only deal with session storage and disappear when the program is closed.

 

I saw in help _estimates the following:

 

"    _estimates hold moves, or copies if the copy option is specified, all information

    associated with the last estimation command into holdname. If holdname is a temporary

    name, it will automatically be deleted when you exit from the current program."

 

This would imply to me that if holdname were not a temp then one might save parms permanently but there are only session references in the code examples.

 

Can anyone give me a little code to save and retrieve permanent model parms?

 

 

Thanks.