Re: st: stata8 update

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

At 06:16 AM 9/2/2005, Kit Baum wrote:
> Since some SSC packages have many, many files associated with them
> (and some of those nowadays are indeed binary--such as Mata object
> libraries, not relevant for Stata 8) I would recommend finding a
> machine with Internet access, using Stata on that machine (even if
> you have to temporarily install Stata there) to do the 'ssc
> install...' steps, and then copying items you have installed from ~/ 
> ado/plus on that machine to the machine lacking internet access. You
> could just zip the  entire ~/ado/plus directory and move it over to
> the other machine with a flash drive or whatever, and merge the
> contents with ~/ado/plus on the target machine.
I agree.  I routinely copy c:\ado from one machine to another.  That 
way I have the same programs available whatever machine I am on.  I 
suppose you could temporarily rename the current c:\ado to something 
else, download and install the files you wanted, and then move the 
new c:\ado over to another machine and restore the original one.

Conversely, when I was beta-testing my gologit2 program, I had people 
just download the program, and one way or another the program would 
somehow get zapped on their end. It worked much more smoothly when I 
set up an install routine for it.


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