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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 10:36:00 LCL
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- Subject: SAS 6.08 - TCP/IP Conflict
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- Subject: SAS 6.08 for Windows conflict with Clarkson TELNET/FTP software
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- Recently loaded up SAS 6.08 Developers Version for Windows. Most things
- seemed to work smoothly with one exception. Kept getting error message
- "Library USER does not exist." when attempting to save or use SAS files
- with one level names. Seemed like an awfully fundamental error to be a
- "bug".
-
- After RTFMing some of the preliminary documentation, the source of this
- problem was revealed. Page 85 of _The SAS System under the Windows
- Operating Sytem Preliminary Documentation_ notes that because SAS 6.08
- for Windows uses a default LIBNAME of USER and LIBNAMEs may be allocated
- with DOS environment variables and many versions of TCP/IP software also
- use a DOS environment variable called USER which references a user ID and
- not a disk subdirectory, SAS 6.08 for Windows will issue the above error
- message. (Was that sentence run on enough?) Anyway the fix is to put the
- following in your CONFIG.SAS file: -initstmt 'libname user clear'. This
- clears the USER libref associated with the DOS environment variable and
- makes SAS a happier camper.
- So what we have here is not a "bug" but a documented "feature" of SAS for
- Windows.
-
- I pass this along to all the current and future SAS PC for Windows users
- who access the INET with the Clarkson TELNET/FTP software hoping it'll
- save them the time it took me to figure this little oddity out.
-
- Other than this problem, my very preliminary benchmarks indicate that
- after it comes up, SAS for Windows in the foreground with no background
- tasks going on runs many DATA and PROC steps in roughly 50 to 60 percent
- of the time taken by SAS 6.04. (This is on a Gateway 486/33C with 8 Megs
- of memory.) Is this the impression other Beta testers are getting?
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