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- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 14:51:59 -0400
- Reply-To: "Gary G. Gu" <ggu@CHPC.ORG>
- Sender: "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.BITNET>
- From: "Gary G. Gu" <ggu@CHPC.ORG>
- Subject: Help needed: positions of windows and looping
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- Hello,
-
- My friend thought I'm a programmer so I ought to be able to fix her
- SAS problems. I failed and I'm turning to the net for help.
-
- 1. How do I control the positions of the windows under X. I'm using a
- DEC 3100 running Motif window manager. I've tried using SAS global
- command `wsave all', but when I start SAS from scratch, the windows
- still showed up in random places (well, places Mwm generated). Why can't
- I use the .Xdefault resource file to inform SAS my preference? What
- are the names of the resources? SAS technical people, please help.
-
- 2. My limited experience using SAS in helping my friend tells me that
- IF-THEN and GOTO statements work only inside the DATA step. How do I
- control the execution of procedures? For example, how do I ask SAS
- to execute:
- proc print;
- a number of times? I'd like to say:
- do i=1 to 10;
- proc print;
- run;
- end;
- I'm spoiled with a general programming langauge like C or Lisp where
- the programmer has a lot of control. SAS seems to offer very limited
- control structures. I hope I'm wrong.
-
- 3. How do I send a variable to a title? I need to have to title to
- say "this is histogram 1" and next time "this is histogram 2". It
- seems there is no way to make title take a variable.
-
- 4. Is there a FAQ for this group that I can get on the net? I am afraid
- that since I'm new to SAS, I must be asking questions people have asked
- years ago. I'd save you a lot of time if I can consult the FAQ file first.
-
- Thank you and your help will be greatly appreciated.
-