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Sergiy writes
Just curious, which other (than Windows) platforms that Stata runs on,
have their executable files stored with extension .exe?
None. That file extension is a DOSism. In *nix, an executable is just
a name. *nix commands are executable files:
bcvpn96:code baum$ ls -l /bin/ls
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 73696 Apr 20 2008 /bin/ls
The -ls- command on a *nix system (in this case Mac OS X) is the
equivalent of -dir- in DOS. It is an executable file called ls. Not
ls.exe, ls.bin, etc. -- just ls.
So if I have a Fortran95 program test.f, I give the command
ecstata:~ baum$ g95 -o test test.f
and I end up with an executable named test:
ecstata:~ baum$ ls -l test
-rwxr-xr-x 1 baum staff 341012 Nov 18 21:14 test
which can be run by mentioning its name:
ecstata:~ baum$ ./test
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Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html
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