On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti schrieb:
> On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Sven Schreiber wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> with 1.7.0 (and before that, too, I think) having an 'include' command in
>> a script without an open datafile caused an error message along the lines
>> "you have to open a datafile first".
>
> Are you sure? The list of commands that is available before a dataset is
> open resides in the function ready_for_command(), which is near the end of
> the file lib/src/interact.c; thanks to the marvelous piece of software that
> cvs is, I was able to establish that the include command has been legal in
> that context since May 2005.
>
>
Yes pretty sure because I switched back from snapshot to 1.7.0 just for
testing it. I said "along the lines" because I was translating back from
German and didn't check the exact wording.
Weird. Could you post an example?
Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti