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Major Service Change: As of September 1, 2004, OIT has moved all of its statistical software for Unix, including Stata, from the Arizona server to a new 64-bit Unix server, tombstone. Anyone wishing to use statistical packages on Unix must register for this new service. Registration is quick and easy and open to all Princeton University students, faculty, and staff. Further details, and a link to the registration page are available from OIT here.

Accounts on Princeton University's central 64-bit UNIX server, called "tombstone," are available to all students, faculty, and staff, but require registration. Tombstone is the home of all of Princeton's statistical software for Unix: Stata, SAS, SPSS, Splus and DBMS/Copy. You can connect to tombstone from any Internet-connected computer using any secure shell (SSH) program. Your login is your email NetID and your password is your Unix password.

Basic Commands

Once you connect to tombstone you will need these basic commands to get started:

pico	Pico is a simple text editor. You can use pico for editing Stata do files.
ls	Show a list of files in your current directory.
stata	Run Stata for Unix. Unix Stata is fully compatible with the Windows and Mac versions of Stata available in the clusters.
quota -v	Reports how much space you have left on your Arizona account - this is the same as the amount of space you have on your H: drive.
logout	This will log you off the machine when you are done.

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