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help for cc                                                     Nicholas Winter
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Utility to automate changing directories

     cc

     cc code

     cc cur new_code

     cc drop existing_code


Description

cc automates the process of changing directories within Stata.  The command
     allows you to build a database of commonly-used directory paths, and to
     associate a short mnemonic code with each.

Typing cc by itself displays a list of mnemonics and the associated
     directories.  You can then click on a mnemonic code to change the
     current Stata system directory to the associated directory.

cc code changes the current Stata system directory to the directory
     associated in the database.

cc cur code adds the current directory to the database, and associates the
     mnemonic code with it.

cc drop code drops the specified mnemonic from the database.

cc uses the file command to create a file called directoryfile.txt in your
     personal ado directory (see adopath), containing the mnemonics and
     associated directory paths.  The file command appeared as part of an
     update to Stata 7, so be sure your Stata is up-to-date.


Examples

     . cc

            bowling U:\nwinter\marketing\Putnam\bowlingdata
            brrsims U:\nwinter\StataData\brrsims
                ccd c:\usrdata\ccd
             nascar c:\usrdata\nascar

            cc code          to change directories
            cc cur  code     to add current directory to database
            cc drop code     to drop entry

     . cc ccd
     c:\usrdata\ccd


Author

     Nicholas Winter
     Cornell University
     nw53@cornell.edu


Acknowledgement

I have used code from Jeroen Weesie's qsort command for sorting the database.
Thank you Jeroen!