Thanks Kevin,

However, sorry to bother you again.

I thought  that the reference to  "$TM_PROJECT_DIRECTORY" after  end run' -- is what  substituted for the  (argv) in the run command.  I  am not getting any file to be opened.  It appears that the line that does the concatenating is not working for some reason.

Thanks again.

danstan

On Dec 10, 2006, at 5:45 PM, Kevin Ballard wrote:

query=${TM_SELECTED_TEXT:-$TM_CURRENT_LINE}

echo "$query" > textmatetostata.do

osascript -e 'on run(argv)

tell application "Stata"

activate

open POSIX file ((item 1 of argv as string) & "/textmatetostata.do")

end tell

end run' -- "$TM_PROJECT_DIRECTORY"