Re: st: Forcing absolute file paths in output

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

For anyone thinking ??? know that -cd- without arguments saves a
character over -pwd-.
Nick
njcoxstata@gmail.com


On 14 August 2013 09:32, Seed, Paul <paul.seed@kcl.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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 <njcoxstata@gmail.com> 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
>> njcoxstata@gmail.com
>>
>>
>> On 13 August 2013 16:03, Martin Rune Hansen <martinrunehansen@gmail.com> 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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