Re: st: RE: Stata7 and Stata8 are doing two very different things.

[Donald Spady <dspady@ualberta.ca>]

Monica
You don't really COPY the files, rather you RENAME them. Thus:
ren wstata.exe wstata.old
ren wstata.bin wstata.exe
That should work
Don Spady

At 02:30 PM 5/17/2004, you wrote:
> Hi,
> I updated my Stata 7 and now the endogenous option is available.  However,
> I've had trouble updating the executable.  I am supposed to follow the
> instructions below but it did not go well.  I had to reinstall Stata and do
> the update process again but have not been able to update the  executable...
>
> Instructions
>     1.  Exit Stata
>     2.  Change to C:\Stata\
>     3.  Copy wstata.exe to wstata.old
>     4.  Copy wstata.bin to wstata.exe
>     5.  Try Stata
>     6.  Later, erase wstata.old if satisfied
>         or copy wstata.old back to wstata.exe
>
> Does any one know how to do this properly?  It seems very easy but...
>
> Best,
>
> M�nica L.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of TEWODAJ MOGUES
> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 7:07 PM
> To: Stata _
> Subject: st: Stata7 and Stata8 are doing two very different things.
>
>
> Hi Stata list users,
>
> If any of you have access to both Stata7 and Stata8, I would be curious to
> know if you have any insight why these produce different results for the
> same commands. I haven't tried out a load of different commands to see if
> there is always discrepancy, but given my interest in dynamic panel data
> modelling, I tried for example this and I get wildly different results:
>
> xtabond y x1 x2 L.x3 , lags(1) pre(x4 x5 , lag(0,1))  twostep noconstant
>
> Please try it out on your own data, using any variables for the y and the
> x's, and see the different output. You don't have to know much about xtabond
> to check whether the results are different (since they should not be). After
> knowing what's going on here, the obvious next step is to find out which of
> the two STata versions is "doing the right thing".
>
> Thanks,
> Tewodaj
>
> ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~
> Tewodaj Mogues
> Dept. of Agricultural and Applied Economics
> University of Wisconsin - Madison
> 427 Lorch St. #317, Taylor Hall
> Madison, WI 53706
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