SSCC News for July 2000
Inside this issue...
STATA Licenses/Manuals Now Available for Purchase Through SSCC
Color LaserJet Printer Now Available
Printing SAS Output
Remaining SSCC Summer Training Schedule
STATA Licenses/Manuals Now Available for Purchase Through SSCC
SSCC has worked out an arrangement with Stata Corporation
which allows us to stock STATA and STAT/TRANSFER software
and manuals. This means you (and anyone else on the
UW-Madison Campus) can get your software and/or manuals
very quickly and cheaper than STATA's usual Academic
discounted price. Here's how the arrangement works: You
call Stata Corporation (800-782-8272) to place and pay for your order.
Then once Stata Corporation receives payment, they fax us the order
information and you can pick up your materials from Sandi Lenz in Social
Science 4405.
Prices are as follows:
Small Stata software and Getting Started manual $55.00
Intercooled Stata software and Getting Started manual 99.00
User's Guide and Extract Manual (GradDoc) 49.00
Stata User's Guide 25.00
Stata Extract Manual 35.00
4-volume Reference Manual Set 105.00
Stata Graphics Manual 15.00
ProfDoc (4-volume Reference, Graphics, Guide) 130.00
Stata 6.0 software is available under the GradPlan for Windows
98/95/2000/NT, Power Macintosh, and Linux. Linux is only available
for Intercooled Stata, not Small.
To purchase Intercooled Stata 6.0, complete, with all the documentation,
you want to buy the following:
Intercooled Stata software plus Getting Started manual 99.00
ProfDoc (4-volume Reference, Graphics, Guide) 130.00
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TOTAL 229.00
If you are a student and do not want to purchase all the documentation,
we recommend that you buy the GradDoc (Guide + Extract) for $49.
The following products are also available through the GradPlan:
Maximum Likelihood Estimation with Stata book 25.00
Stat/Transfer 5.0 (Windows 98/95/2000/NT software and manual) 42.00
Stata Graphics Editor (DOS software and manual) 48.00
Color LaserJet Printer Now Available
The Center for Demography and Ecology has donated an HP Color
LaserJet Printer to SSCC for co-op members to use. You can
use this printer with regular weight paper or transparencies. (It
cannot process heavy weight paper.) If you want to print on transparencies,
you will need to supply your own and must use special transparencies made
for color laserjet printers. Some agency/department offices supply
this type of transparency.
If you have a special print job that requires a color printer, drop by
the Consultant's office and she/he will assist you with the printer.
The printer is on the network and can print jobs from SSCC's NT network
or UNIX.
Printing SAS Output
Using the "lpr" command on UNIX to print SAS output (.lst files)
sometimes results in garbage output. SAS Institute is aware of the
problem but currently has no fix. The work-around is to use the
"enscript" command to print output files instead. enscript converts
files to postscript format before they get printed. For example, to
print the file dissert.lst to a printer in the 7th floor user room,
type: enscript -Puser7double dissert.lst.
Remaining SSCC Summer Training Schedule
All SSCC training sessions require preregistration. If less than three people
have preregistered for a course one week prior to its start date, the class may
be canceled. Click here to register for a session(s).
You will be reminded about your preregistration through e-mail a day or two before
the class begins.
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