st: re: how to build a website to allow downloads from within Stata

[Christopher Baum <kit.baum@bc.edu>]

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Chuntao Li said

   I urgently need to build a dataset so that students can access the data from within stata, such as using the command like net from. Can someone tell me where I can find helps for this? 

You don't need to do anything special. You do not use 'net from' for data; you use it for user sites which allow the download of Stata programs. If all you want to do is allow downloads of .dta files, just put them on a server and publicise their location to the students:

use http://your.server.name/directory/whatever.dta

You may find the code of -bcuse- helpful in setting up a command for your students which allows them to avoid typing the full URL. Try

ssc type bcuse.ado

Kit

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