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help for Bill Gould's Mata talk at the 2005 NASUG meeting
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{title:Description}

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The talk was given from within Stata using SMCL to present information and run
commands, do-files, and programs.  If the talk has been installed on your
system, an annotated version of those files is located in your personal
directory (see help {help sysdir}) in the subdirectory {bf:boston05matatalk}.

{title:Installing the talk}

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Before running the talk, you must install the talk; type,

	. {cmd:bmatatalk}

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to install the talk.  The talk is always installed in your personal ado
directory, as identified by the {help sysdir} command, in a subdirectory named
{bf:boston05matatalk}.  You can update the materials for the talk by typing

	. {cmd:bmatatalk , update}


{title:Running the talk}

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To run the talk you must be in the {bf:boston05matatalk} directory.  

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To change Stata to that directory, 
{stata cd `"`c(sysdir_personal)'/boston05matatalk"':click here}.

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To begin the talk {view talk.smcl:click here}.