st: Re: Stata 9/10 compatibility

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

There is no reason for me to change the existing contents of the SSC  
archive. No one, to my knowledge, has trouble downloading .hlp files  
from within Stata using the ssc command. The only problematic case  
involves Windows users trying to use a 'real' web browser to  
download .hlp files. But we already strongly dissuade such behavior  
(and encourage operating system upgrades). As Nick Cox suggests, it  
will be easy enough, for new additions to SSC that do not _require_  
Stata 10, to include both .sthlp and .hlp in their package files. As  
it stands now, many contributors to SSC are unable to email .hlp  
files (even within .zip files) to me. I encourage them to now adopt  
the .sthlp convention when sending me materials (Nick has been  
using .shlp for some time, but he will now switch to .sthlp).


Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html


On Jun 8, 2007, at 2:33 AM, Bill Gould wrote:


> My second answer is this:  If for some reason Kit Baum wants to  
> standardize
> the Boston archive on .sthlp, even for Stata 9, then I will write a  
> Stata 9
> ado-file that will search all installed .sthlp files and rename  
> them .hlp.
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