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On Feb 10, 2010, at 10:47 AM, Nick Cox wrote:
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> Second, the implication here seems to be that " " are essential on OS X
> even if a filename contains no embedded spaces. I don't have OS X to
> test that (my loss) but I'd be surprised if that were true.
>
You are right--you do not need double quotes around a file path in OSX if there no
embedded spaces, the filepaths in Stata commands function in OSX just as they do
in Windows.
@Jonna: You might want to look at this thread:
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2009-05/msg00394.html
Though this solution is Windows based, you could change the shell "attrib" command
to something like:
!chmod a+w "/user/username/filenamehere.txt"
*see this website for more on options for changing read/write attributes in OSX:
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/chmod.1.html
Finally, this could be a permissions issue for that file/folder, use disk utility to check for this:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1452
~ Eric
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