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Re: st: DOS Shell -windows


From   Ricardo Ovaldia <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: DOS Shell -windows
Date   Wed, 7 Jul 2010 08:41:47 -0700 (PDT)

Thank you Neil. In my program I simply use the "!" :
!mlem.exe

Ricardo

Ricardo Ovaldia, MS
Statistician 
Oklahoma City, OK


--- On Wed, 7/7/10, Neil Shephard <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Neil Shephard <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: st: DOS Shell -windows
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Wednesday, July 7, 2010, 10:36 AM
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 3:29 PM,
> Ricardo Ovaldia <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > I have a "do" file that calls a DOS program, however I
> want the DOS window to close and the "do" program to
> continue without me having to type "exit" in DOS. Any ideas
> how I can do this?
> 
> Well you've not told us how you are currently doing this,
> but -man
> shell- (http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?shell)
> tells us that -shell-
> makes a system call and Stata will wait for the shell to
> close or the
> command to finish (I'll hazard a guess that this is what
> you're using
> as you say you are having to type 'exit' in your DOS
> prompt).
> 
> However, if you were to use -winexec- to start a command
> prompt (or
> any other program) then Stata will continue without waiting
> for the
> program to complete.
> 
> So try using -winexec- to call your command prompt/execute
> your DOS program.
> 
> Neil
> 
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