Confirmed with Stata 8.2 for Linux
. query born
10 Jan 2005
Jann, Ben wrote:
> Someone reported to me offlist that the helpfile of the new -jmp-
> package seems to be corrupt. To display the file, type
>
> rnethelp "http://fmwww.bc.edu/RePEc/bocode/j/jmp.hlp";
>
> in the Viewer (-rnethelp- only works in the Viewer).
>
> Although I cannot confirm the problem in this specific case (on my
> system the file is being displayed correctly), I suspect that there is
> something wrong with Stata's Viewer. I myself have stumbled over the
> problem once in a while that a helpfile was not displayed correctly (at
> some point in the helpfile, the interpretation of paragraph stops and
> the remaining text is being displayed unstructured) if the file was
> directly drawn from the net. However, there does not seem to be anything
> wrong with these file, because after installing the packages, the help
> files could be displayed without problems. An example for such a file -
> at least on my system - is the help file of the -statsmat- package on
> SSC. Type
>
> rnethelp "http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/s/statsmat.hlp";
>
> in the Viewer.
>
> A work around, of course, is to install the package and then view the
> help file that has been copied to the local system. Nonetheless, I think
> that this is a problem which should be taken care of.
>
> Unfortunately, I could not figure out yet what is actally going wrong.
> In addition, the problem seems to depend on the specific system (I am
> using Stata 8.2, everything updated, on Win XP 2002 SP2).
>
> Do others experience similar problems? Does anyone have a clue why this
> happens?
>
> ben
>
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