Roger Harbord [email protected] wrote:
>Having just had Stata/SE 8.0 installed on my PC, I did an -update all- to
>get the very latest version. After successfully downloading the executable
>this instructed me to type -update swap-. I did this and Stata
>automatically shut down and a new instance started up but this contained
>two error messages as below. Subsequent start-ups don't give these error
>messages but -update- reveals that I'm still using the 02 Jan executable.
>Presumably -update swap- is automatically running some script that's
>failing, but I've no idea what it contains or why it fails. This problem
>is repeatable.. (tried it twice). A new wsestata.bin is present in
>C:\Program Files\Stata8, along with the old wsestata.exe and a
>wsestata_old.exe (which appear identical).
>
>It's easy enough for me to rename the files myself as you had to do under
>version 7, and then the 23 Jan executable runs fine, but anyone got any
>ideas why -update swap- won't work for me? I'm working under Windows 2000.
This involved a bug with -update swap- when Stata was installed in a path
with a space in the name, such as "Program Files", and only occurred under
Windows versions of Stata.
This has been fixed in the 23Jan2003 update, however, upgrading to this
version requires a manual rename (as was done under Stata7). Roger also
pointed this out.
If you experience this bug with -update swap-, simply download the new
executable via Stata, and instead of running -update swap-, manually
rename your wstata.bin (wsmstata.bin/wsestata.bin depending on flavor) to
replace your existing wstata.exe (wsmstata.exe/wsestata.exe depending on
flavor).
Once you have manually renamed and are running the 23Jan2003 version, you
can use -update swap- for any subsequent updates.
--Kevin
[email protected]
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