Error code for "File already exists"

[Sergiy Radyakin]

Dear All, this is probably to Stata developers again.

When saving the file as PDF with putpdf save "mygraphs.pdf" I am getting:

C:\temp\mygraphs.pdf already exists
you must specify the replace option
invalid syntax
r(198);

end of do-file

r(198);

This is indeed the case, the file exists, and I didn't specify the replace option. But why is the code 198? Not 602 as for other Stata commands?
It would be good to have it consistent with e.g. save or other Stata commands that save files.


Thank you, Sergiy Radyakin

PS: Stata 16.0/Windows