Many thanks to Phil and Alan for their answers.
So, goodbye then, <verinst>.
-- Giovanni
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Giovanni VECCHI
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Department of Economics
University of Rome Tor Vergata
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan
Riley
> Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 12:04 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: about vs. verinst
>
> Giovanni Vecchi <[email protected]> asked whether
> -verinst- is still a valid Stata command:
> > with the advent of Stata 10, the commands <about> and <verinst>
> > produce the same output. Exactly the same. This does not
> make sense to
> > me.
> >
> > While <about> is still documented in the reference manual,
> <verisnt>
> > is not. Nor is there an entry for <verinst> in the on-line help.
> >
> > I'm tempted to conclude that <verinst> has become an out-of-date
> > command. Can anyone confirm it?
> >
> > I'm running Stata/MP, duly updated.
>
>
> -verinst- is no longer an officially-documented command in Stata 10.
>
> Many years ago, on old DOS computers, people would sometimes
> install Stata in such a way that Stata could not find its
> ado-files. We created a simple command implemented as an
> ado-file named -verinst- which people could try to execute to
> see if Stata could find their ado-files.
>
> If Stata could find -verinst- and execute it, obviously Stata
> could find its ado-files. If the command was not found, it
> meant Stata could not find its ado-files and troubleshooting
> was necessary.
>
> In modern versions of Stata, the installation routines
> install Stata in such a way that we no longer hear about
> Stata not being able to find its official ado-files. Thus,
> we deemed -verinst- to no longer be necessary and made it
> undocumented. We left around a simple ado-file for -verinst-
> so that we wouldn't break anything in case any users had a
> call to -verinst- in a do-file.
>
>
> --Alan
> ([email protected])
>
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