I believe the following is an omission.
As you can see from the second -about- command, -clear- does reset the
version to the most updated version downloaded,
but in the -trace- only the "main number" of the version is shown.
Renzo Comolli
. about
Intercooled Stata 8.1 for Windows
Born 09 Sep 2003
. set trace on
. clear
------------------------------------------------------------------------
begin clear ---
- version 8
* rest of trace omitted
. about
Intercooled Stata 8.1 for Windows
Born 09 Sep 2003
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