ZIPPKG: Stata module to create ZIP archives of community-contributed content for offline distribution

Daniel Bela

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: zippkg is a Stata helper program to distribute community-contributed content into offline environments (such as data centers / secure enclaves or any other system that is not connected to the internet). It enables users to download Stata packages from the internet (via SSC or user-hosted sites) and directly create ZIP archives from it, so that these archive files can be imported via offline methods (memory sticks, shared network drives, etc) to the target system(s).

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 12
Keywords: ZIP; archiving; downloading; packages; ssc; net (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-04-09, Revised 2022-02-25
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install zippkg". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
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http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/z/zippkg.sthlp help file (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/g/gnugpl.sthlp help file (text/plain)

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