Environment variables recognized by Stata for Unix
Author
Alan Riley, StataCorp
HOME — User's home directory. Default is the directory specified in /etc/passwd.
PATH — Unix executable search path.
SHELL — to execute when user tries to shell out of Stata. Default is /bin/sh.
S_ADO — Stata’s ado-path. Default is UPDATES;BASE;SITE;.;PERSONAL;PLUS;OLDPLACE (mapping of these keywords to real directories can be seen by typing sysdir in Stata)
STATATERM — used if you want to use a different
termcap or terminfo entry than what is in your
TERM environment variable.
STATATMP — sets Stata’s temporary directory.
Default is /tmp.
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