I guess you can use .profile.do to change the default ado paths.
This .profile.do file runs everytime you start STATA.So..in a way..you get
what you want.
HTH,
-Jayesh Kumar
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On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 [email protected] wrote:
:Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 15:35:14 -0400
:From: [email protected]
:Reply-To: [email protected]
:To: statalist
:Subject: st: modifying ado path permanently
:
:Does anyone know of a way of modifying the SITE codeword location listed in
:.sysdir?  My group has several employees using Stata, and we'd like to
:create a place to store ado-files that we can all use.
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