Thank you so much. Sorry for posting a FAQ. Becoming a Texan seems to have
completely discombobulated me. -Laurel
It may be a frequently asked question, but I don't think there is a FAQ
written up on it, e.g. "What to do if -update all- fails." Even searching
through the archives won't necessarily help you, since the error message
seems to be different a lot of the time. There seems to be some sort of
inherent bug in the update feature of the initial release of Stata 8, the
error messages you get are misleading, and unfortunately the only apparent
way to make the problem go away is to get the updates as though you didn't
have Internet access.
