st: -replace- should not be use with temporary files (was: Comparing datasets)

["Joseph Coveney" <jcoveney@bigplanet.com>]

Steven Samuels wrote (excerpted):

. . . Technical support told me that "replace" should not be used when
saving temporary files.

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This is news to me.  I use -replace- all of the time with temporary files.
What did StataCorp technical support say was the matter with using
-save . . . , replace- with temporary files?

Joseph Coveney


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