Re: st: STATA by Stata

[Nick Winter <nw53@cornell.edu>]

I find it much easier to remember as, "RUB-TARB"

--NIck



At 01:00 PM 3/23/2006, you wrote:
> My telephone is more limited than Richard's and it only uses capital letters.
> So the letter equivalent of 782-8272 (the common way of writing phone
> numbers here in the US)  is STA-TAPC.  Wonder why they wrote that
> as STATA-PC on the startup screen???  Hmmm.
>
> m.p.
>
> Richard Williams wrote:
>
> > At 12:37 PM 3/23/2006, David Airey wrote:
> >
> > > For all of us who get picked on for capitalizing Stata to STATA,
> > > implying an acronym, I just noticed that using Stata 9 for OS X, the
> > > "Official Updates" menu option writes, when updating from stata.com,
> > >
> > > "update from STATA"
> > >
> > > in the command field.
> >
> > Plus, have you ever noticed that the startup screen says 800-STATA-PC? :)
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