Re: st: [Stata 9] Convincing Stata to let me quit the program withoutconfirmation

[James Muller <james.muller@internode.on.net>]

An example daemon mode for Stata in the form of an ado file:

To use this starting Stata type
   >   stata daemon_mode /path/to/file.do
or whatever works for your OS.

Stata will simply loop until the file /path/to/file.do exists, then will 
delete the file. I might make this a proper package, though it's dead 
simple. Anyone want any more functionality?

Anyway, here's the ado file:


--------------------daemon_mode.ado----------------------------
program define daemon_mode
   args path

   while (1) {
       sleep 1000

       capture file open FH using "`path'", read
       if (_rc == 0) {
           file close FH
           do "`path'"
           erase "`path'"
           }
       }

end
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