Hi,

I am currently using the 16th version of STATA on MacOS. I want to open a 4GB document that has the form '.dat'; when I open it with 'StataSE' it only gives me a new STATA window (without any data on it) and a do-file (with the name of the document) with only 'VOL1' in it, but there is nothing I can do with it:

. do "/Users/sigrid/Desktop/HKU/SVM/polodump20181128.dat"

. VOL1
> 7HDR1polo183340CF17 000100 18334 18334 Sybase 0CF17 HDR2F 0204803 polo
> 00000000002000012803 0000002EOF1polo183340CF17 0
> 00100 18334 18334 ŤSybase 0CF17 EOF2F 0204803 polo
> 00000000002000012803 0000002EOF3VOL1 7 �I?
> HTSU�dK��H���� �� ��Nl2f �<<$<x`
command VOL1 is unrecognized
r(199);

end of do-file

r(199);


It would really help me if someone knows how to open such a file on Stata;

Many thanks,

Sigrid