Re: st: Problems with internet access [was: ... Collapse syntax error]

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

Windows is being windows....You should rename the file in a DOS (command) 
window, not in windows explorer.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ramani Gunatilaka" <Ramani.Gunatilaka@BusEco.monash.edu.au>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: st: Problems with internet access [was: ... Collapse syntax 
error]



> Thanks, Nick.
> I am dealing with the problems one by one.
> The first to update Stata from 
> http://www.stata.com/support/updates/stata8/win/
> I had been looking at
> http://www.stata.com/support/updates/stata8.html and couldn't navigate 
> from that page to the one you gave me.
> Anyway, did as instructed, that is saved the bin file in my C:\Stata 
> folder, renamed WSTATA.EXE, WSTATA.OLD and renamed WSTATA.BIN as 
> WSTATA.EXE.
> Now the problem is that though I renamed the BIn file as Exe, though the 
> name changed it remained an EXE file. And when I tried to click on it to 
> make Stata run, I was given this dire warning and backed off in fear.
> "Files are used by the Operating system or various programmes. Editing or 
> modifying them could damage your system"
> Then it gave me a choice to select a programme from the web with which to 
> open the file.
> But what I noticed was, when the file is renamed, it is called a 
> wstata.exe.bin. That is renaming does not get rid of the bin.
> Can you please advise me what I should do?
> Thanks,
> Ramani
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