home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
- Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!auvm!ESPRESSO.BOEING.COM!HAMILTON
- Message-ID: <9208201518.AA21283@espresso.bcs.eca>
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.sas-l
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 08:19:15 -0800
- Reply-To: Paul Hamilton <hamilton@ESPRESSO.BOEING.COM>
- Sender: "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.BITNET>
- From: Paul Hamilton <hamilton@ESPRESSO.BOEING.COM>
- Subject: SAS/AF (r) Documents
- Comments: To: SAS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu
- Lines: 46
-
- >CONTENT: SAS/AF beginner needs suggestions
- >REL/PLTF: mine is VAX/VMS running SAS v6.06
- >E-ADDR: DALMAS@NIEHS.BITNET
- >NAME: Dawn Dalmas
- >DATE: August 20, 1992
- >
- >I'd like to develop SAS/AF applications for data entry which are menu-driven
- >and user-friendly, featuring data/field value restrictions, help selections,
- >user-generation of reports, resulting in creation of SAS datasets. Sounds
- >like a job for SAS/AF, right? But I'm having a little trouble getting started,
- >and would appreciate suggestions/comments/advice aimed at my level (SAS
- >programmer with no AF or SCL experience). I have one Fine Manual at my
- >fingertips: SAS/AF Usage & Reference, Vs. 6, 1st edition. The Ch.10 (p.172)
- >description of PROC BUILD states ability to "read from and write to SAS data
- >sets" yet I'm not clear on just how to do this. Are there other manuals/books
- >you'd recommend with tutorial-type examples? Is the SI course "SAS/AF Software
- >Applications Using Screen Control Language" worth the money?
-
- As far as I can see, there are 4 books documenting SAS/AF and SCL. They
- are:
- o SAS/AF(r) Software: Usage and Reference Version 6 First Edition.
- o SAS Screen Control Language: Reference Version 6 First Edition.
- o SAS Screen Control Language: Usage Version 6 First Edition.
- o Professional SAS User Interfaces, by Rick Aster, SCL Programs by
- Rhena Seidman.
- Windcrest/McGraw-Hill (c) 1992 ISBN 0-8306-3717-6.
-
- The first 3 are published by SAS Institute, the last is a third party book.
- I spend
- many hours a week coding in SCL and SAS/AF: I would not want to do without
- any
- of these books. The first two document the software itself; the 3rd and 4th
- try
- to show you how to use it. IMHO they are all good at what they try to do.
-
- No personal or financial interest in any of these resources--just a guy
- trying
- to get his programs to work well.
-
- Hope this helps...
-
- Kind Regards,
- Paul D. Hamilton
- Boeing Computer Services
- hamilton@espresso.boeing.com
- (206) 865-4470
-