Re: st: Help -- Having Difficulty Updating STATA Under Mac OS X

[David Vaughan <dvk@dvkconsult.com.au>]

On Saturday, May 3, 2003, at 16:33 Australia/Sydney, Steven A. Melnyk" 
<melnyk@msu.edu> wrote:

> I hope that someone from this list can help me.  This issue is really
> starting to get old for me.  I have just tried to update my exe file
> but the system will not do it -- I keep getting an error message.  The
> usual drill is for me to erase the entire STATA file and to reinstall
> the CD and then to do an update.  STATA Technical support has been of
> little or no help on this issue.  I am currently running OS 10.2.5,
> 80GB harddisk, and 1.2 GB of memory.  What can I do to get a smooth
> updating of the exe file?
Steven

Well, I hope it is not called an exe file or you are reallyl in trouble 
;-). Stata -update swap- expects to find "Stata.bin" but on the Mac 
under OS X it is just called "Stata". Instead of doing -update swap- 
just quit and remove the old Stata (actually, I compress and save mine, 
just in case) and rename the file Stata.1 to Stata. Then go.

regards
David

> Steven A. Melnyk
> Department of Marketing & Supply Chain Management
> Michigan State University
> melnyk@msu.edu
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