Re: st: Re: unbundling gamfit.exe to c:\ado\

[Gauthier Tshiswaka-Kashalala <s24027589@tuks.co.za>]

Thank you Kit,
I got a readily executable 'gamfit.exe' at  
//www.stata.com/users/jhardin/gam/ and everything is now fine.

Gauthier

Quoting Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>:


> Although I believe that .EXE has sometimes been used in the DOS world
> as an alternative to .ZIP (that is, you run FOO.EXE and it unpacks into
> a bunch of other files--is that what you mean by 'unbundling'?) the
> GAM.EXE file is what it says: a DOS executable file. On my (Unix)
> system, if I compile foo.f, I will end up with an executable file, and
> mentioning its name will execute it. On DOS, you start with FOO.F (or
> FOO.C) and you end up with FOO.EXE. At that point the FOO command
> should work. So don't try "unbundling" the executable image; you can't.
> You just want to have it located so the -gam- command will be able to
> run it from within Stata.
>
>
> 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 Apr 15, 2008, at 02:33 , Gauthier wrote:
> > My problem is a bit different in that I do not know how the FORTRAN
> > program GAMFIT.EXE available at //lib.stat.cmu.edu/general/ can be
> > UNBUNDLED. I tried 'copy and paste' but nothing seem to be happening.
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