Re: st: profile.do

[David Jacobs <jacobs.184@sociology.osu.edu>]

Stata deliberately does not let users alter the set more off command 
in the profile.do file although I can't remember why.

Dave Jacobs


At 01:22 PM 2/14/2008, you wrote:

> Dear Statalist,
> I'm using Stata 9 and I made a profile.do file so that when Stata opens
> it sets the mem to 500m and sets more off.  I see that the little do
> file runs every time Stata opens, but it does not set more off.  Does
> anybody have any idea why?  Here is what is in the profile.do file.
>
> set more off
> set memory 500m
>
> and here is how I know it is actually running.  This is the message I
> get now whenever I start Stata:
> Notes:
>       1.  (/m# option or -set memory-) 10.00 MB allocated to data
>       2.  (/v# option or -set maxvar-) 5000 maximum variables
>
>
> running C:\Program Files\Stata9\profile.do ...
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
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