I was starting to install Sergio Correa's -ftools- package. But I was given a warning that the file join.ado already exists and is different. Sure enough:
It has no help file. Looking at the style and formatting of the code, it's definitely not something I wrote and forgot about. It has no by-line. I wrote a quick program to read all the .ado files in c:/ado/plus and scan them for the occurrence of the character sequence "join." That turned up a small number of files, including outreg.ado, joinby.ado, reghdfe.ado. But, reviewing their source code, none of them appear to call a program called -join-.
Does anybody know what this join.ado file might be? I am tempted to just let SSC overwrite it and force-install ftools, but I don't want to break something that I use that might depend on it. Any ideas? Anybody recognize this?
Added: -findit join- turns up a long list of "hits," but none of them actually refer to a join.ado file as far as I can tell.
Code:
. which join c:\ado\plus\j\join.ado *! version 2.10.0 3apr2017
Does anybody know what this join.ado file might be? I am tempted to just let SSC overwrite it and force-install ftools, but I don't want to break something that I use that might depend on it. Any ideas? Anybody recognize this?
Added: -findit join- turns up a long list of "hits," but none of them actually refer to a join.ado file as far as I can tell.
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