Not quite. See the help once more.
Loosely, -findit- is
* a -search- on your system
plus
* a -search- over the net.
Your -search- on your system looks
for help for Stata 8.2 and so won't
see help for the -ca-. This is because it scans
the help files locally installed, which
naturally won't include those for Stata 9.
Your -search, net- should
find _downloadable_ ados, irrespective
of version. It is not expected to
find _mentions_ of stuff. -ca- is
not downloadable by you, as already
established.
Now is not an especially good time to test the
difference, as the server supporting
SSC was down last night and -findit-
won't find stuff there. But
. findit eclplot
on your system will find -eclplot- for
Stata 9, even though it won't be any
use to you yet. So, you can see user-written
programs for Stata 9. To learn about official
programs that are part of Stata 9, you need to
look at them at the website, which is where we started.
Nick
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> I am on my way to upgrade to stata 9.
> For the search, I typed: net search ca.
> Which returns "no matches" in stata 8.2.
> I then tried "findit ca", with the same answer.
> Does this mean that older versions of stata
> are unable to find new ados of new versions?
*
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
