tempname junk
file open `junk' using junk.tex, write replace
file write `junk' " Tamas \\" _n
file write `junk' " Bartus \\" _n
file close `junk'
type junk.tex
Works for me on Window and produces the desired double backslash
Tim
2010/1/30 Dr. Bartus <[email protected]>:
> Kit Baum wrote that
>
>>I don't see why one needs to do anything to avoid writing double backslashes:
>>. file open `junk' using junk.tex, write replace
>>. file write `junk' " Tamas \\" _n
>>. file write `junk' " Bartus \\" _n
>>. file close `junk'
>
> Am I right that you are using Unix? I am using Windows.
> What surprises me that Roy's method of macro substituion works,
> but typing double backslash doesn't.
>
> My guess is that \\ in Windows is a special character, meaning
> it is reserved for specifying path names or accessing network places.
> And to get \\ into the output file, poor Windows users should type something different.
> But I failed to discover, what...
>
> Maybe people at StataCorp know the answer....
>
> Tamas
>
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>
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> Corvinus University, Budapest
> 1093 Budapest, Közraktár utca 4-6.
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