st: Thanks - installing overid on network

["Ramani Gunatilaka" <ramani.gunatilaka@gmail.com>]

Kit,
Thanks for this. The problem was sorted out.
Best,
Ramani

On 13/11/06, Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu> wrote:
> There should be no problem for an IT manager to install any SSC module
> on the network (SITE) directory provided she has appropriate permission
> to do so. ssc has no magical powers, as Nick Cox said, but if you can
> -net set ado SITE- then that is the ado-directory into which ssc will
> install. Here is an illustration from a machine on which I have
> sysadmin privileges:
>
>
> . adopath
>   [1]  (UPDATES)   "/Applications/Stata/ado/updates/"
>   [2]  (BASE)      "/Applications/Stata/ado/base/"
>   [3]  (SITE)      "/Applications/ado/"
>   [4]              "."
>   [5]  (PERSONAL)  "~/ado/personal/"
>   [6]  (PLUS)      "~/ado/plus/"
>   [7]  (OLDPLACE)  "~/ado/"
>
> . net set ado SITE
>
> . ssc install overid
> checking overid consistency and verifying not already installed...
> installing into /Applications/ado/...
> installation complete.
>
> . which overid
> /Applications/ado/o/overid.ado
> *! overid V2.0.0 C F Baum, Vince Wiggins, Steve Stillman, Mark Schaffer
>
> If I had used ssc install without net set ado SITE, it would have gone
> into PERSONAL.
>
> Kit
>
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