Stata8 does not use the registry for storing information about the updates
or ado files installed. It only uses the registry for information about
preferences (such as windowing, clipboard copying, etc), "permanent"
settings, translators, printers, and a few other things. You can just copy
c:\Stata8\ado\updates and c:\ado (or whatever places stuff oges on your
machine) to get the ado files updated.
Michael Blasnik
[email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Williams" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 10:32 AM
Subject: st: Synchronizing two configurations of stata
> Suppose you work on stata 8.2 on 2 different WinXP machines. Suppose, on
> one machine, you install various additional routines. Rather than repeat
> the install process on the 2nd machine, can you just do something like
copy
> c:\ado from one machine onto the other? Or when you are installing, are
> there all sorts of changes to the registry that won't get made if you do
> things this way?
>
> As noted on another of my threads, I'm having trouble with one of my
> machines not being able to access the Internet for unknown reasons. But
> even if it could, it might be nice not to have to install everything
twice.
>
> In the old dos days, you might have done something like copying c:\stata8,
> c:\ado, and c:\data from one machine to another and all would have worked
> well. But, with the Windows registry, that usually doesn't seem to work
> anymore. Or perhaps it would, provided I install Stata8 on both machines
> first? Again the question, I guess, is what is happening to the registry
> as you install routines -- do changes get made or does Stata have some
> other way of knowing what is installed, or what? Thanks. RW
>
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