Dear list,
This hasn't been a problem yet for me, and I've heard nothing to
suggest that it has been a problem for others, but:
If someone distributes a program that includes something like
shell do-something-nasty
will Stata do-something-nasty as the program instructs, or will it stop
and ask me for permission? (as far as I can tell, Stata will do what
the program says).
If Stata goes right ahead and does-something-nasty, then are there good
reasons not to ask for a wish-list item that might stop that from
happening without additional user input?
The manuals may well address this question; my manuals are out of reach
for now. And I haven't summoned to courage to write a test program that
tries to erase my hard disk.
-Richard
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Richard Sherman
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Leiden University
Leiden, Netherlands
http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/sherman
( my web site will soon migrate to
http://homepage.mac.com/richard.sherman/main/ )
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