st: ODBC data sources in the MAC world

["E. Paul Wileyto" <epw@mail.med.upenn.edu>]

I have a couple of questions about ODBC data sources in the MAC world.  
One of them is an OS related question, but I am guessing someone here 
would know the answer.  It seems I have talked a couple of Apple users 
into Stata 10, and while copying from Excel is an easy short-cut for 
them to move data, I would feel better if I could give them scripts that 
did the import for them direcly from multiple Excel files.  But I know 
nothing of ODBC on the "dark side."

1) Do the ODBC commands I use in Windows Stata 10 work the same way on a 
MAC?

2) Under Windows, I need to register my ODBC data sources in order to 
use them.  Are there similar utilities under the MAC OS for registering 
ODBC sources?

Thanks

Paul



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Tobacco Use Research Center
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