Re: st: Stata Installation Qualification Tool

[Hiroyuki Kawakatsu <hkawakat@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 3 Feb 2011, Sergiy Radyakin wrote:
[...]
> recently a great tool has quietly appeared on the web page of Stata.com:
> http://www.stata.com/support/installation-qualification/
>
> However I couldn't find any announcement of this or any more information
> besides what is on that page. Nevertheless, it seems that Windows Stata
> users are now more equipped in finding problems related to incomplete
> installations or unsuccessful updates. Very helpful and very interesting.
>
> It would be great if this tool was described in more detail in a blog
> post perhaps?
[...]

Thanks for this information. This will be a useful tool to address issues like
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2008-10/msg00773.html
It will be really useful if it could 'easily' check several
installations such as in computer labs. (I know, get a feature, and
you ask for more...) I can see a new Stata command that checks your
installation from within Stata.

h.
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