Re: st: updating ado's

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@nd.edu>]

At 08:19 AM 4/4/2005 -0400, Hebe B. Quinton wrote:
> Version 8 newly installed (windows XP). Update executable goes fine.  Update
> ado times out "connecting to host", and the silly thing then will only start
> over from the very blinking beginning - there is no checkpoint to realize that
> 9 mega bytes have already been down loaded!  Each ado file is a separate file,
> so it would be possible NOT to start over each time.  It is timing out at a
> different place each attempt. Increasing the timeout variables has no effect,
> the process seems completely incapable of restarting once it pauses.
Are you sure the executable got updated?  The recommended procedure for a 
first-time update is

update executable
update swap
update all

Don't forget the update swap!  If still having problems, follow the 
directions for a non-internet update at

http://www.stata.com/support/updates/stata8.html


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