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- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 16:54:48 CDT
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- From: Sean Dyer <sean@WUBIOS.WUSTL.EDU>
- Subject: Color problem with SAS under OS/2 V 2.0
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- I recently talked to SAS inst. about a problem I've been having with video
- in SAS under OS/2 V 2.0, and thought you all might want to file this away
- for future reference.
-
- Problem: When SAS opens certain windows (especially in PROC BUILD) the
- background and text colors are set to the same value and the color command
- is unable to reset them.(In the case of my machine the color was set to a
- blinding white). The problem seems to appear pretty much at random, and
- repeatedly invoking the offending window until the proper colors appear
- temporarily fixes the problem.
-
- Solution: SAS inst. is aware of this, and says that it only occurs with
- Version 2.0 of OS/2. Since OS/2 V 2.0 is relatively new no permanent fixes
- have been developed yet. There are 2 workarounds:
-
- 1. Invoke SAS with the undocumented option $noaws. This disables the
- aws in some way that is unclear to me and also seems to fix the problem.
-
- 2. Invoke SAS with the -awsdef 0 0 100 100 system option. The awsdef
- option is documented in the OS/2 companion. I haven't tried this because
- the $noaws was the preferred solution and it worked for me. This is a
- possible alternative.
-
- Note. When using the $noaws option DO NOT PREFIX WITH -.
- eg sas $noaws NOT sas -$noaws
-
-
- -Sean Dyer
- -Division of Biostatistics
- -Washington University, St. Louis MO
-