st: Re: statalist-digest V4 #1955

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

As every listing on IDEAS and EconPapers states, users are admonished 
NOT to download .ado and .hlp files with a web browser, especially if 
they are using Windows. Please get your copy of ivreg2 with the ssc 
command within Stata:

ssc install ivreg2,replace

"HTML format" does not exist; it is just text. ado-files are just text. 
Only an operating system which tells you what you can and cannot do 
with arbitrarily-named text files would cause this sort of problem. But 
in any case the 'ssc' command will work for any Stata-supported OS.

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html

On Apr 27, 2005, at 2:33 AM, Akbar wrote:


> I have downloaded a "ivreg2.ado" file from internet but it is in HTML 
> format
> and doesn't work in Stata. Last night I updated my Stata8. Now when I
> type "help ivreg2" it give a lot of information about, but "ivreg2" 
> command
> doesn't work. Does any abody have a copy of "ivreg2.ado" to share with 
> me? I
> REALLY would appreciate your time.
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