st: c(mode) with console Stata on OS X

[Phil Schumm <pschumm@uchicago.edu>]

Dear Stata on OS X users,

Today I fired up an old tool chain that threw an error because c(mode)  
doesn't seem to exist under console Stata on OS X (and therefore code  
that uses this to detect whether Stata is running in batch mode didn't  
work).  In particular, if I do


[~] pschumm% stata

. creturn list


(where stata points to StataSE.app/Contents/MacOS/stata-se) or if I  
create a do-file containing the line


creturn list


and run it with "stata -b", in neither case does the system value  
c(mode) appear.  It does, however, appear when running gui/windowed  
Stata on OS X (with a value of "", as expected).  Unfortunately, I  
can't recall the last time I ran this code (or even the platform on  
which it was last run), so I can't say with certainty whether c(mode)  
ever existed under console Stata for OS X, but I'm pretty sure it did.

Can anyone confirm whether this is something that changed?


-- Phil

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