--- Shrenik Shah <[email protected]> wrote:
> In order to update Stata 8 in the end, I needed to essentially try
> many times, because I would almost always get a "unexpected end of
> file" error. In the end, I just executed a .do file that said
> something like:
> forvalues i=1/500 {
> capture update all
> }
> Unfortunately, capture suppresses output, so you won't know when it's
> done. Moreover, you can't break out of the do file, since capture
> just moves to the next line if you click break. There's probably a
> way around these things, but I didn't bother, since I just ran this
> do file overnight, and in the morning, Stata was indeed updated.
local maxtry = 500
local i = 1
capture update all
while _rc != 0 & `i' <= `maxtry' {
capture update all
local `i++'
}
di "succeeded after `i' attempts"
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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