st: Synchronizing two configurations of stata

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@nd.edu>]

Suppose you work on stata 8.2 on 2 different WinXP machines.  Suppose, on 
one machine, you install various additional routines.  Rather than repeat 
the install process on the 2nd machine, can you just do something like copy 
c:\ado from one machine onto the other?  Or when you are installing, are 
there all sorts of changes to the registry that won't get made if you do 
things this way?

As noted on another of my threads, I'm having trouble with one of my 
machines not being able to access the Internet for unknown reasons.  But 
even if it could, it might be nice not to have to install everything twice.

In the old dos days, you might have done something like copying c:\stata8, 
c:\ado, and c:\data from one machine to another and all would have worked 
well.  But, with the Windows registry, that usually doesn't seem to work 
anymore.  Or perhaps it would, provided I install Stata8 on both machines 
first?  Again the question, I guess, is what is happening to the registry 
as you install routines -- do changes get made or does Stata have some 
other way of knowing what is installed, or what?  Thanks. RW

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