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help for fastcd                                                 Nicholas Winter
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Utility to automate changing directories

     fastcd

     fastcd code

     fastcd cur new_code

     fastcd drop existing_code


Description

fastcd 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 fastcd 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.

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

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

fastcd drop code drops the specified mnemonic from the database.

fastcd 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

     . fastcd

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

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

     . fastcd 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!