Re: st: Post-program tempfiles or a temp directory?

[James Sams <sams.james@gmail.com>]

On Thursday 27,  September  2012 19:37:37 you wrote:
> I have not tried it but I imagine that temporary files opened in an
> interactive session will remain open during that session. The
> interactive session itself counts in Stata as a program in the widest
> sense, at least for some purposes. You would then just need to pass
> their names to your individual programs.
> 
> For further and better advice, you might need to spell out what your OS is.

This is for a set of rclass programs to be used by a number of people on Linux 
for sure, probably also OS X. Maybe not Windows, but possibly. It will usually 
be used in the context of a do file, not a session (the function itself is 
likely to take at least 2 hours to run easily 10 times longer). Defining the 
files ahead of time is not feasible. The entire point of the function is to 
figure out which source files would need to be operated on in the first place, 
operating on them in the specified manner, saving the results to some files, and 
handing the files off to the 'user' of the function for them to use as they see 
fit. 

-- 
James Sams
sams.james@gmail.com
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