These situations are very difficult to diagnose remotely.
You could read the help on -netio- and check that all is well.
Many problems boil down to users accessing the net through a proxy
server. Stata needs to be told about that.
Nick
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Indranil Majumdar
> I get the following error when trying to evaluate the status
> of the Stata
> 8.2 installed on our Linux Machine (64-bit).
>
> . update query
> (contacting http://www.stata.com)
> unexpected end of file
> http://www.stata.com did not respond or is not a valid update site
> r(612);
>
> For the same reason I cannot incorporate any user-authored components.
> I don't understand the file referenced in the ' unexpected
> end of file'
> message. Does anybody have any idea as to what the problem could be?
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