Re: st: saveold rare behavior

[Nick Winter <nwinter@virginia.edu>]

I'll bet that's intended behavio(u)r - note that -saveold- also does not 
change the name of the current dataset, as displayed by -describe-, such 
that a subsequent -save, replace- resaves NOT the name given for 
-saveold-, but rather the original name.  Since -saveold- can be 
destructive, that's not unreasonable behaviour -- in other words, 
-saveold- acts more like -outfile- than like -save-.
- Nick Winter

On 4/1/2010 7:11 PM, Sergio I Prada wrote:
> I don't know if this has come up before. This is presumably a message for
> the technical people at Stata
>
> Recently I got confused by the fact that I saved a file using saveold and
> the name of the file did not change on the upper bar (Stata/IC 11.0 -
> C:\Data...)   after using saveold, try this example
>
> sysuse auto
> saveold automo
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