Re: [Gretl-devel] Re: stata 10 files (Allin Cottrell)
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Gordon Hughes wrote:
There was a fairly significant change in native file format between
Stata 9 and Stata 10. Stata 10 files are much less widely supported
than the earlier file format,.
The change was enough to make the new files backward-incompatible,
but it was in fact trivial: they changed the size of one field
(the "format" record for each variable) from 12 to 49 bytes.
Don't ask me why -- but anyway, gretl can now handle both formats.
Allin.