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help for ^stbget^ 
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Get packages from Stata Technical Bulletin
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    ^stbget^ issueno                                     

    ^stbget^ issueno pkgname [^, all replace^ ]
    
    ^stbget^ pkgname issueno [^, all replace^ ]
    
    ^stbget^ issueno pkgname [^, d^escribe ]
    
    ^stbget^ pkgname issueno [^, d^escribe ]
   

Description
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^stbget^ works with packages from the Stata Technical Bulletin (STB) kept 
on-line at http://www.stata.com. It requires a net-aware variant of 
Stata 6.0 or Stata 7.0.

Understand that issueno means "STB issue number" and pkgname means "package 
name". 

^stbget^ issueno is equivalent to 

        ^. net from http://www.stata.com/stb/stb^issueno

^stbget^ issueno pkgname or ^stbget^ pkgname issueno is equivalent to 

        ^. net from http://www.stata.com/stb/stb^issueno
        ^. net install^ pkgname

^stbget^ is able to guess that an integer argument can only be an issue 
number and to indulge (e.g.) ^dm97.3^ for what ^net^ knows as ^dm97_3^.
It allows (e.g.) ^stb60^, ^stb-60^, ^STB60^ and ^STB-60^ as alternatives 
to the issueno ^60^. 


Options
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^all^ and ^replace^ are options of ^net install^. See help on @net@. 

^describe^ specifies that packages are to be described, not installed. 

        ^. stbget^ issueno pkgname ^, describe^ 

is equivalent to        

        ^. net from http://www.stata.com/stb/stb^issueno
        ^. net describe^ pkgname 


Examples
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    . ^stbget 60^ 

    . ^stbget 60 gr46^
    
    . ^stbget 60 gr46, d^ 

    . ^stbget 59 dm97.3, replace^ 


Author
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         Nicholas J. Cox, University of Durham
         n.j.cox@@durham.ac.uk 
         

Also see
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On-line:  help for @net@, @stb@, @stbutil@ (if installed)