Apologies for this - it wasn meant to be posted to Nick Cox privately.
Still, no harm done!
C.
> Nick,
>
> On Wednesday week, you provided one solution for problems with -install-
> which I took you up on:
>
>> Various people reported problems downloading stuff
>> from SSC.
>>
>> Briefly, I can't diagnose whether the issue arises
>> from local machine or software situation; or from some
>> limit or bug in Stata; or from some combination.
>>
>> My one positive comment is to point to
>>
>> . ssc copy <filename>
>>
>> as a way of getting stuff into the current
>> directory is -ssc install- is not working.
>> Upstream of this you should naturally -cd-
>> to the appropriate place. That's usually
>> much straightforward than using a browser
>> or some other more or less awkward way of
>> copying.
>>
>> What's more, you can loop through set of files
>> with -foreach-.
>>
>> That said, this is only a stop-gap.
>
> Not long after, you provided me with the -foreach- loop privately.
>
> Although the loop didn't always work in all circumstances (e.g., trying to
> -ssc copy mypkg- produced an odd error saying that the package could not
> be located at SSC!), I've now found the solution via Technical Support:
> delete _all_ your backup.trk files. Not doing so causes a file permission
> error, say TS.
>
> Once I eventually twigged onto the fact that I actually have two of these
> files, it worked a treat: I've downloaded three packages since. As not
> everybody may be aware of this, do you think it may be worthwhile
> reporting this to the list?
>
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CLIVE NICHOLAS |t: 0(44)191 222 5969
Politics Building |e: [email protected]
School of Geography, |f: 0(44)870 126 2421
Politics & Sociology |
University of |
Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
NE1 7RU |
United Kingdom |http://www.ncl.ac.uk/geps
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