Not a bad idea at all, if the v7 and v8 manuals are generally
congruent... :)
C.
> Statalisters
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> Has Stata Corp considered releasing version 7 manuals at little or no
> cost? Perhaps pdf manuals could be provided to anyone with a valid
> Stata7 or Stata8 license. I would guess that the commercial value of
> Stata7 manuals today must be quite low, so Stata Corp would be giving up
> very little revenue by distributing these manuals in this way. On the
> other hand, there are many students throughout the world for whom the
> cost of Stata8 manuals is high. Providing Stata7 manuals at little cost
> might even increase overall Stata revenues by increasing the total
> number of Stata users.
>
> Bill Dupont
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Yours,
CLIVE NICHOLAS,
Politics Building,
School of Geography, Politics and Sociology,
University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
NE1 7RU,
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