New in git and snapshots: you can give the ".dta" suffix with the "store" command -- or use the Export data item in the GUI -- to write a dataset in Stata's dta format, version 113 (first introduced with Stata 8). If anyone's inclined to test this, that would be good. (And BTW we can now import from dta format 118, which is written by Stata 14 -- that could do with some testing too.) Allin