st: Slowing Stata down

[Laura Gibbons <gibbonsl@u.washington.edu>]

My Dell PC computer has timing issues such that when Stata's accessing a 
file on disc, Stata can occasionally go too fast, at least compared to my 
computer, generating error messages about files being "read only".  In my 
own code, if I have the program "sleep" for a few msec before accessing a 
file, I can get around this.
But is there anything I can do to slow down internal Stata code?  I'm 
trying to MI reshape a data set, and I get error messages during the 
"assembling results" stage about files being "read only" which I know are 
indications of the same problem.  [My computer at home, while generally 
running faster, does not have this problem, either in my other code or 
within MI reshape.]
Many thanks,

Laura

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Laura E. Gibbons, PhD
General Internal Medicine, University of Washington
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