st: RE: Problems with ssc

[Kit Baum for the RePEc Team <repec@repec.org>]

Indeed, the top-level stata.toc file was missing. Not sure why (or when). 
But it is there now, as 'net from http://repec.org/bocode/' will show. 
Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

'ssc describe...' or 'ssc install...' do not travel through the hierarchy, 
but go directly to the specified directory, so they were not affected.

Thanks
Kit

--On Tuesday, October 1, 2002 17:28 +0100 Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> 
wrote:


> Hoetker, Glenn
> > Hi.  The last two days, I have been unable to access the
> > ssc-ideas via Stata.  I do the following:
> >
> > * Go to the Help menu/STB & user-written programs
> > * In the viewer, click on   "STB and more
> > http://www.stata.com";
> > * Click on     "users     materials by various people including
> > StataCorp employees"
> > * Click on     "ssc-ideas         Boston College SSC
> > archive, programs
> > posted to Statalist"
> >
> > At this point, I get the following error message:
> >
> > "file http://fmwww.bc.edu/RePEc/bocode/stata.toc not found
> > http://fmwww.bc.edu/RePEc/bocode/ either
> >   1)  is not a valid URL, or
> >   2)  could not be contacted, or
> >   3)  is not a Stata download site (has no stata.toc file).
> >
> > current site is still http://www.stata.com/users/
> >
> > r(601);"
> >
> > Oddly, "ssc whatsnew" from the command line works fine.  I
> > can get to
> > http://fmwww.bc.edu/RePEc/ via my web browser, so I don't
> > think it's a
> > DNS problem.
> >
> > Is anyone else experiencing this difficulty?  Can anyone make
> > suggestions as to how to fix the problem?  I am using a
> > fully up-to-date
> > Stata/SE v7 on Windows XP.
> You're right. This particular gateway is blocked.
>
> But, as you exemplify, the -ssc- command gets you there directly.
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk


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