st: Req: Stata version in ssc archives

["Roberto De Miguel" <rdemi@indec.mecon.gov.ar>]

Dear statalisters:

Making - ssc whatsnew - I found the command "blist"
............
BLIST
module to list values of variables in as small a space as possible
Authors: Adrian Mander       Req: Stata version 7.0

Revised: 2005-07-31
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For my surprise, although it said: Req: Stata version 7.0, when attempting
to use it requested the version 9 of Stata.

Looking at the ado, I found that if I changed the line "version 9.0"
meetly, it also runs in a previous version of Stata.

Something similar happened to me with the "fixsort" command that although
it require the version 9.0 can be used in a previous version changing
the line that declares the version in the ado
............
FIXSORT
module to sort variables and align in sorted order, with others fixed
Authors: Nicholas J. Cox       Req: Stata version 9.0

Created: 2005-08-02
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I always understood that the required version represent the minuimum
requirements needed by the command to work. Isn't this correct?

Can somebody clear up this point?

Thanks in advance

Roberto De Miguel

INDEC
Instituto Nacional de Estad�stica y Censos
Argentina 
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