Re: st: exporting stata preferences

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 02:03 PM 2/6/2008, Adrian de la Garza wrote:
> Hello Stata users!
>
> Does anybody know if there's a way to
> save or export my Stata preferences so that I can use Stata with my own
> preferences on a different computer? I don't know if I can save these
> to a file I can carry on my USB drive, and then I just copy this file
> to some folder in the Stata directory in any other computer. I work in
> the Statistics lab at my university and there are people who come here
> often to use Stata but they usually get different computers because
> their previous computer is taken. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
> Adrian
You could probably adapt the suggestions that are given on this page:

http://www.nd.edu/~rwilliam/statsinfo/ndstata/ndstata.html

Basically, you just write a little do file that changes the Stata 
directory settings to a drive that you have read/write access to.


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