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- From: walker@twix.unx.sas.com (Doug Walker)
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- Subject: Re: Should I do the 6.1 patch?
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 14:52:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec20.101229.6301@desire.wright.edu>, fheitkamp@desire.wright.edu writes:
- |> I have SAS/C 6.0 and the file for the 6.1 patch. I have been "afraid"
- |> to apply it because I heard here on the net the patch introduced some
- |> floating point bugs. Since I do mostly floating point related stuff,
- |> I won't apply the patch until I get clarification.
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- If you have to use the MATH=68881 option, stick with 6.0. If you
- can get along without it for a while, 6.1 does fix some problems
- that you probably want fixed. There is a complete list of what
- is fixed in the archive itself.
-
- |> Fred Heitkamp, ** Not an organization **
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