Re: st: Problem Using Matwrite, "unrecognized command" error

[Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org>]

On Fri, 15 Apr 2011, J Taylor wrote:

> Nick, thank you for your help with this.  The results from applying
> the trace are shown below.  Unfortunately, this was not super
> informative for me, though I have never used the trace before.  Any
> thoughts on what may be going on?
>
> Thank you,
> JT
>
> . clear
...
>  = plugin call _matwrite  x y  , "c:\matlabfile.mat" 1 replace 0 5
> unrecognized command
>  ------------------------------------------------------------------
> end matwrite ---
> r(199);

The "unrecognized command" message appears to come from Stata not finding 
_matwrite. At least it is easy to generate that message by calling a 
non-existent routine. Perhaps _matwrite isn't in the path or perhaps it 
doesn't have execute or read permission.

Daniel Feenberg
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