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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 09:14:00 EST
- Reply-To: Mike McDermott phone 993-3126 <MMCDERMO@GMUVAX.BITNET>
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- From: Mike McDermott phone 993-3126 <MMCDERMO@GMUVAX.BITNET>
- Subject: Viewing text files in SAS
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- E. Bell wants to let his user view output which has been written to a file,
- preferably while remaining in a SAS session. Although I am running SAS 6.06
- on a VAX (VMS 5.5-1) and he is running PC-SAS, I think that the features I
- will describe are probably available in both environments.
-
- 1. Although "include" does not work on the Output screen of Display Manager,
- it works just fine for this purpose on the Program Editor screen. Of course,
- I have to put the file name in quotes so that SAS does not append ".sas" to
- the name I write before looking for the file; but I brought in a 132-character
- wide file and browsed around it very nicely. When I had finished, I just wrote
- "clear" and the program editor was free to edit programs as usual.
-
- 2. For myself, I usually let my output go first to the Output screen of
- Display Manager. If I like it, I use the "file" command to send it to a
- file from which I can download it to my PC for printing from WordPerfect, or
- I go to the Output Manager screen to send parts of the day's output to files.
- I don't use the Print feature of Output Manager myself, but that is because I
- prefer to print locally rather than on the VAX system printer ... concerns of
- mine which needn't worry anyone else. I should think that PC-SAS would give
- excellent Print results from the Output Manager screen *provided* that the
- output had been formatted for a print page rather than for screen display.
-
- When I first began to use Display Manager, I didn't realize that the output on
- the Output screen didn't *have* to be a 78-character by 20-line page, with
- page numbers cumulating through a session. I now routinely include in each of
- my proc steps which will generate output an "option ls=75 ps=64 pageno=1;" and
- the results are just what I want for my preferred letter-size report format.
- Just put your own numbers in and you have screen viewing *before* file keeping
- and/or print making.
-
- Mike McDermott, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
- MMCDERMO@GMUVAX.BITNET Voice: 703-993-3126
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