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Re: st: xstata user preferences, via ssh with X forwarding: any tips?
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Dave Ewart <[email protected]>
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Re: st: xstata user preferences, via ssh with X forwarding: any tips?
Date
Fri, 21 May 2010 15:13:14 +0100
On Thursday, 20.05.2010 at 11:57 -0500, Pete Huckelba wrote:
> xstata for Linux checks for the environment variable STATA_PREF_DIR at
> launch for user preferences. If STATA_PREF_DIR is not set, it falls
> back to the DISPLAY environment variable, which as Dave noted, is
> login dependent. Simply defining that variable should solve the
> multiple preference issue.
Ah, splendid: exactly what I was looking for. Thanks Pete...
Incidentally, where is this documented? Did I miss it in the manuals?
Dave.
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Dave Ewart
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Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit
University of Oxford / Cancer Research UK
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