st: New Stat/Transfer switch to control output Stata version

[Steven Dubnoff <sdubnoff@circlesys.com>]

Our decision to make Stata version 10 the default has caused lots of 
problems, particularly for command line users.  To mitigate these, we 
have added a new switch to the copy command 'v'.  By itself, this 
switch cause a write to a prior version of a program.  If
the 'v' switch is followed by a number it will select a specific 
Stata version.  In short, this switch behaves like the "set 
write-old-ver" command.  For example, both of the following will 
write Stata 9 files.

        copy my.xls out.dta /v9

or from a unix OS prompt:

        st my.sav out.dta -v

Stcmd.ado users can insert the switch permanently in their ado file.

This is now available through the auto-update mechanism for Windows 
and OS-X, or, for all Unix platforms, by download from our website.

Best,

Steve




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