Hi Sergiy,
Thanks.It worked beautifully!!
Murali
> Dear Murali,
>
> see this thread earlier in the Statalist or search it in Google:
>
> "st: Undocumented zip/unzip capabilities of Stata 10"
>
> Although it is undocumented, it works fine so far and I believe it is
> going to stay with us because of:
>
> " 22. Official ado updates may now be distributed as a compressed archive.
> This can make updates significantly faster for those with a slow
> internet connection."
>
> http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?whatsnew
> Stata executable, all platforms
>
> But Stata developers might, of course, decide otherwise in the future.
>
> Note that it is very easy to extract several files at once with this command:
>
> //-------------------------------------
> unzipall.ado------------------------------------------------
> // Sergiy Radyakin, 2007-2008
> // This is a wrapper to an undocumented unzipfile command in Stata 10
> // It may or may not work in the later versions.
> // It does not work in any version prior to 10.
> // Use at your own risk, e.g.:
>
> // unszipall, from("c:\temp\myarchive.zip") to("c:\unpacked")
> // overwrite password("mypassword")
>
>
> program unzipall
> version 10.0
> syntax ,from(string) [to(string) overwrite password(string)]
>
> local startdir `"`c(pwd)'"'
> if missing(`"`to'"') local `"`to'"' `"`startdir'"'
> quietly cd `"`to'"'
> unzipfile `"`from'"', `overwrite' password(`"`password'"')
> quietly cd `"`startdir'"'
> end
>
> // -------------------------------- end of unzipall.ado
> --------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> The benefit of using this code is of course that you don't have to
> install anything in addition to the .ado file, such as the unzip
> utility that Dr. Stovring mentions in the help file for -zipuse-.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Sergiy Radyakin
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 7/25/08, Svend Juul <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Murali wrote:
> >
> > My question concerns the use of data files which are compressed into a
> > zip-folder.Is there a way to incorporate the un-zipping of these files in
the
> > form of code that is part of a do-file as opposed to individually
extracting
> > each and every needed file separately from the do-program? Thanks.
> >
> > ==================================================================
> >
> > You might benefit from Henrik Stovring's -zipsave- and -zipuse- commands.
> > Find and install them by:
> >
> > . findit zipsave
> >
> > HTH
> > Svend
> >
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Iowa State University
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