Is there any simple way to get Stata to override the version command and
run programs written for a later version? Stata 8.0, Jan. 2003 is
installed on some campus cluster machines, and unfortunately I am at the
mercy of other people to get these updated. If my students download a
program written for version 8.1 or 8.2 I would like it to run for
them. The changes between 8.0 and 8.2 seem small enough that my guess is
the vast majority or user-written routines will run fine in 8.0, especially
for the fairly basic things I am covering now. You could, of course, just
edit any ado files so they said 8.0, but I'd like to keep things as simple
as possible. Thanks for any advice.
In the future, I'll have to remember to get after the computing people to
update things at least once a semester -- my guess is they don't even know
that updates are possible and available.
