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Tips on Installing and Configuring Stata 
for Lab Managers with Macintoshes

Most of the instructions shown for Tips on Installing and Configuring Stata for a Lab Running Windows can apply to those using Macintoshes.  Some additional points/exceptions are...

• The set memory command does not work on the Macintosh.  Instead, you can set the memory by changing the properties of the Stata executable.
• Instead of using the cd command in profile.do, you may wish to use a file called stata.do to invoke stata. You can make a copy of stata.ado to the location where you want Stata to start up. You can make an alias of stata.ado and place that in the apple menu items to invoke Stata, and it will still start up in the directory where the original stata.ado was located.

For assistance installing/configuring Stata for your Lab with Macintoshes, please contact the ATS Stat Consulting Group at ATSstat@ucla.edu  and we will arrange to meet with you to help install and customize your Stata so your students can get maximum benefit from it.