Quoting Maksim L Pinkovskiy <[email protected]>:
Dear Stata users,
In August 2009, I posted the following question:
> whenever I try to open a Stata dataset by clicking on it in Windows
> Explorer, I
> get output and an error message of the form:
>
> C:\data\mydataset
> unrecognized command: C
> r(199);
I have since received an answer to this problem from another Stata user. I am
posting the answer here so that other people could benefit from it if
they have
a similar problem as I did:
You to modify the registry key in Windows, for doing that:
1. Open the Registry editor by running regedit.exe
2. Once you opened the editor open go to:
Computer -> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT -> Applications -> wmpstata.exe -> shell ->
open -> command
3. On the right panel you should see "Default REG_SZ "C:\Program
Files\Stata..
4. Mark it, press the right button of your mouse and select "modify"
5. Change the Value data: C:\Program Files\Stata9\wstata.exe" use
"%1"
6. Press OK and it is done.
What is important is to have the use option before "%1", that will allow you
to open the files from explorer.
I hope this will be useful.
Yours Sincerely,
Maxim Pinkovskiy.
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