st: Permanent changes in system directories

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@nd.edu>]

This is just a trivial nuisance for me, but if anyone knows how to fix it 
it would be nice.  In Stata, you can give commands like

sysdir set STBPLUS c:\ado\plus\

when you want to override the default system directories.  Is there a way 
to make such changes permanent in Stata 7 and Stata 8, either in Stata or 
by editing the registry or whatever?  (I use Windows XP.)

I often copy my c:\ado directory onto different machines (so I'll have the 
same downloaded programs wherever I am working) and I sometimes even give 
copies of it to people who want to get a quick collection of useful 
programs.  Depending on how Stata got installed, the appropriate directory 
name is sometimes c:\ado\plus, or c:\ado\stbplus, and sometimes it may even 
be on a totally different drive.  Because I had Stata 7 installed before, 
my system defaults to c:\ado\stbplus and I want it to default to the now 
more common c:\ado\plus.

I know I could put a command in profile.do, but even that is a slight 
hassle because I have to make sure the profile.do is correct for whatever 
machine I am copying c:\ado to -- I'd like to keep specific file and drive 
references down to a minimum if I can.  Thanks for any advice.  RW


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