Richard,
If you have (or can get) space on the H: drive to which you have write
permission and the students have read permission, you could copy your entire
PLUS directory there and do the updates yourself. I do this myself since we
have a similar set-up. I copied the entire PLUS directory to my H: drive
and put the sysdir command in my profile.do. Since I have access to my H:
drive from anywhere on campus, including home, I can use Stata anyplace and
still have access to all my favorite ado programs.
Hope this helps.
Paul
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Richard Williams
> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 2:33 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: Sharing ado files on a network
>
>
> My students are using Stata this semester, and I want them to
> be able to
> use various user-written programs. Apparently, however, they
> could install
> stuff on cluster machines, but it would be gone the next day.
> The network
> administrator is willing to install some stuff permanently,
> but I don't
> want to be harassing him every week as I figure out what I want!
>
> Students do, however, have networked drives they have regular
> read/write
> access to (on our system, the H: drive).
>
> I was therefore thinking I could have them type in something like
>
> sysdir set PLUS h:\ado
>
> That would install programs to h:\ado, right? But then they
> wouldn't have
> access to whatever is on the local c:\ado?
>
> Perhaps I could create an ado file with the above command and
> a few others,
> and ask our network administrator to install it on every
> machine, and then
> students would just type something like -soc593- and be all set?
>
> Any tips on how to do this as painlessly as possible? Thanks.
>
>
>
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