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Re: -fastcd- [was: Re: st: MIME-Version: 1.0]


From   David Elliott <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: -fastcd- [was: Re: st: MIME-Version: 1.0]
Date   Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:08:23 -0300

fastcd is one of those little utilities that, once you have used it,
you wonder how you managed without.

In Stata, all I do is type:

. c
                 1% ###\Projects\1%
               aphs ###t\Projects\aphs
                icu ###\icuapp
                imm ###\Elliott\immunization
                 np ###\Projects\nurse practitioner
                pan ###t\Projects\Pandemic
              rates ###\DATA\rates
              stata ###\Stata10
               temp c:\temp
               test c:\ado\test
             trends ###\wait times\data
                vac ###\Vaccine Validation Project
               wait ###\wait time project\data

and I have one click access to all my project directories or I can use
the alias from the command line or in a dofile.

David Elliott

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
 -- Robert A. Heinlein (American science-fiction Writer, 1907-1988)




On 24 March 2011 12:06, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> Not so.
>
> Although it's not standard, it's nevertheless explained in the package
> documentation that the command within the -fastcd- package is called
> -c- and as such is implemented in an .ado file called c.ado.
>
> Note that -help c- in Stata calls up help on -c()-, evidently grounds
> enough for some complication here.
>
> Nick
>
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 2:45 PM, A Loumiotis
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> It is not currently possible to install fastcd from ssc because the
>> ado file is missing.  Only the help file is available and can be
>> installed.
>
>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Neil Shephard <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>> You could ease this process by installing and using -fastcd- so that
>>> you have a set of what are essentially macros for the "very long path"
>>> that you can call to change directory.
>>>
>>> Once in that "working" directory you will likely have sub-directories
>>> for 'data', 'scripts' and so forth and its then a case of...
>>>
>>> use "data/mydata", clear
>>>
>>> Check out -fastcd- from ssc and install with....
>>>
>>> ssc desc fastcd
>>> ssc install fastcd
>>>
>>> It's a great little utility from Nick Winter.
>
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