st: Re: nothing to install

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

On Feb 26, 2004, at 2:33 AM, Richard wrote:

> At 03:35 PM 2/25/2004 +0000, Nick Cox wrote:
> > There are a few such entries on SSC, intended
> > to be helpful rather than the reverse.
> >
> > In short, -ssc- works exactly as advertised, but
> > there is no absolute rule that a package need
> > include Stata .ado and/or .hlp files.
> What Nick describes is what I would have guessed.  As a relatively new 
> user
> of Stata, I wonder if, now that we have the -findit- command, putting 
> up
> such information-only packages causes more confusion than they solve.  
> It
> seems like it is an extra step that can slow you down until you get to 
> what
> you really want.
To "clarify" (ahem...) there should never have been a clarify.pkg on 
the SSC archive site. There is an entry in the SSC archive for clarify, 
with a web-page link that leads you to the proper site, but since 'ssc' 
(or its underlying 'net install') cannot work with 'foreign' web 
servers, all SSC .pkg files should point to local content. clarify.pkg 
has been removed, and when I have the time I will try to ensure that no 
other packages of its sort exist.

There will be no updates to the SSC archive during my absence from 
Boston from tonight through 8 March 2004.

Thanks
Kit

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