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From   "Alex Ogan" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: RE: RE: RE: Quick Saving
Date   Mon, 15 May 2006 17:37:02 -0400

The behavior you are having is normal, and consistent with what Nick
wrote:

Opening a file from a directory other than the current working directory
does NOT change the current working directory.

. pwd
D:\DATA

. use D:\DATA\test\test.dta

. pwd
D:\DATA


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nuno Soares
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 5:34 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: RE: RE: RE: Quick Saving

Hi Nick,

I'm also using Stata 9.2. After your email I tried the following;

. use "C:\DATA\qksave\auto.dta", clear
. Save test

And stata saved the test.dta file in the "c:\data" directory not in the
"c:\data\qksave" directory. Maybe a default I've changed?

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: 15 May 2006 22:27
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: RE: RE: Quick Saving

I don't know what Stata you are using. 

I am using Stata 9.2, in which -save <filename>- saves to the current
directory or folder unless otherwise specified. I can't remember any
other
behaviour. 

Nick
[email protected] 

Alex Ogan
 
> Is `c(pwd)' what you want?

Nuno Soares
> 
> I was wondering if anyone  knows of a procedure that allows the user 
> to save the current dataset in the current working directory without 
> typing the all path, just the filename.
> If we don't specify the path, the -save- command saves the file in the

> default data directory. If we want to save in the current working 
> directory (different from the default directory) I believe we have to 
> write the complete path (which is extremely boring if we want to quick

> save several versions of the file after ).
> I've been trying to write a ado file that enables to do just that, but

> I don't know if Stata has a command that retrieves the current 
> directory.
> The objective is to write a command like this: qksave filename.
> Can anyone help?

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