Re: st: Stata stops recognizing basic commands

[Jos� Maria Pacheco de Souza <jmpsouza@usp.br>]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Gould, StataCorp LP" <wgould@stata.com>
Subject: Re: st: Stata stops recognizing basic commands



> Jo La Frite <jo_la_frite@yahoo.com> writes,
>
> > I am having a strange problem with Stata (Stata/SE 9.0 for Windows, I 
> > have
> Jo has already gotten lots of good advice from the list.  Some of that
> advice, however, as been of the form of "do this and hope" and then
> gone on to mention how serious the problem might be.  Jo, I fear, may
> be more nervous than ever.
>
> Here's my advice:
>
>     1.  From what Jo says, it appears that somehow Stata's official
>         ado-files got erased or that Jo or some system administrator
>         made some change in Stata's parameters so that Stata can no
>         longer find its official ado-files.
> Good luck.  I've gone through this from start to finish just to prove to 
> you,
> Jo, that no matter what happens, we have a plan on how to deal with it.
>
> I work for StataCorp so now I am required to add, since you are running 
> Stata
> 9, that now might be a good time to consider upgrading to Stata 10, Jo.
>
>
> -- Bill
> wgould@stata.com
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