On Aug 30, 2006, at 1:09 PM, Timothy Beatty wrote:

I've put together a very basic/simple/uncomplicated/doesn't do much bundle for Stata, available at:

Hi Tim-

It's neat to see a Stata bundle in development. I used to use Stata regularly, but I don't actually have a copy of Stata for OS X at the moment, so I can't really test it out. I have just one initial suggestion: You might want to set the name of the Stata app through an environment variable like TM_STATA_NAME. Then I think you could do in your commands:

osascript -e "tell application "${TM_STATA_NAME}" ...

That way, users with different versions of Stata need only set the variable in their preferences rather than change the app's name in each of the "send to Stata" commands (this would make expansion of the bundle easier, too). It might also make sense to make the location of your textmatetostata.do file something like /tmp/Stata -- that way, one's data/do file directories won't get cluttered with extra temporary files.

Cheers- -Alan