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

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

On Monday, May 5, 2003, at 16:33 Australia/Sydney, David Airey 
<david.airey@vanderbilt.edu> wrote:


> > 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
> If it were this simple. It never worked for me. When I did this (and
> emptied the trash), the rename StataSE.1 never starts.
David

You may need also to alter the permissions as suggested by a couple of 
other correspondents. I did not have that particular problem. The 
permissions are easily changed in Terminal with -chmod +x Stata-

If this still does not work then I must move your problem into the box 
marked "weird".

regards
David

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