Thanks Philip,
The installation is at home for a personal licence separate to my
personal work licence; it doesn't exist behind a firewall or proxy per
se.
Frustrating, but am considering your suggestion in the interim. I am
however concerned that other updates will not stick !!
Andre Duszynski.
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Philip Ryan wrote:
>
> Andre
>
> I have had this problem on occasions as well (Windows/Stata version 8) and
> my suspicion is that the University of Adelaide's web server has a cache
> that doesn't always help matters when you try for the auto update. I have
> also then gone around in ever-decreasing circles trying to get the manual
> download and local update to be reflected in the information returned by
> -update query-. If no other solutions are proffered then what worked for
> me was to delete the entire official ado\update folder and then either
> auto or manually updating the ado files. Sounds drastic but the update
> folder is really a rather (temporarily) dispensable part of Stata. (You
> could of course, always rename or otherwise hide the existing ado\update
> folder while you build a new one.)
>
> Phil
>
> At 10:28 AM 30/08/2004 +0930, you wrote:
> >I've recently applied the update to a Macintosh version of Stata 7 so
> >that it can be used natively within Mac OS X.
> >
> >Unfortunately I cannot get the ado files to update; a message is
> >received that the URL "could not be
> >opened for read by copytextfile".
> >
> >I've noticed within the archive that this problem had previously arisen,
> >but no solution had been suggested.
> >
> >Any way to apply the update manually i.e. i've downloaded the ado
> >archive file, unpacked it but update via the browse function still
> >doesn't update the ado files.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Andre Duszynski.
> >
> >
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