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Re: st: Forcing absolute file paths in output
From
"Seed, Paul" <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: Forcing absolute file paths in output
Date
Wed, 14 Aug 2013 08:32:57 +0000
A quick and easy to remember way of getting the info into your output is :
*******************
cd
graph export mygraph.pdf
*******************
This will take two lines of output to show exactly
where the graph is stored.
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think the short answer is No.
>
> But you could always spell out the full path within your command.
>
> I guess you don't want to do that, but the only alternative I can
> think of is writing a program to emit a local macro that cuts down on
> typing.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
>
> On 13 August 2013 16:03, Martin Rune Hansen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Dear all
>>
>> Is there a way to force Stata to always write abolute file paths in
>> the output panel? For exsample, if I export a graph I want Stata to
>> output
>>
>> (file C:\Users\myuser\Documents\Graph.pdf written in PDF format)
>>
>> instead of
>>
>> (file Graph.pdf written in PDF format)
>>
>> I realize that I can make Stat write the full path if I myself specify
>> an absolute path, but that is not what I am after. I want to be able
>> to type commands using relative paths and have Stata respond with the
>> absolute path. Is this possible? Thank you in advance.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Martin Hansen
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