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Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 18:11:37 +1000
From: David Vaughan <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: st: Help -- Having Difficulty Updating STATA Under Mac OS X
On Monday, May 5, 2003, at 16:33 Australia/Sydney, David Airey
<[email protected]> wrote:
>> Stata -update swap- expects to find "Stata.bin" but on the Mac
>> under OS X it is just called "Stata". Instead of doing -update swap-
>> just quit and remove the old Stata (actually, I compress and save
>> mine,
>> just in case) and rename the file Stata.1 to Stata. Then go.
>>
>> regards
>> David
>
> If it were this simple. It never worked for me. When I did this (and
> emptied the trash), the rename StataSE.1 never starts.
>David
>You may need also to alter the permissions as suggested by a couple of
>other correspondents. I did not have that particular problem. The
>permissions are easily changed in Terminal with -chmod +x Stata-
>If this still does not work then I must move your problem into the box
>marked "weird".
I had this problem, too: after renaming StataSE.1 to StataSE, I was unable
to launch the updated program. Not being comfortable with the use of the
Terminal, I viewed the file with the shareware program "Super GetInfo", and
found that I as the "Owner" did not have permission to "execute" StataSE.
Simply checking the box to give me that permission enabled me to launch it.
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