topic Re: how to suppress PC SAS from appending a .sas to another SAS file in SAS Programming

how to suppress PC SAS from appending a .sas to another SAS file

JMarkW — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:35:53 GMT

On the configuration we are using, if one opens a .sas file using Windows file explorer the file is appended to any other .sas file that was already been open in PC SAS.

Does a setting exist to have PC SAS open the new .sas file in a different tab instead of appending to and corrupting an already open .sas file?

Re: how to suppress PC SAS from appending a .sas to another SAS file

Doc_Duke — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:36:34 GMT

I believe that is standard behavior when you double-click and have OPEN as the default association in Windows, I don't know of a way to open another tab in the PC SAS user interface.

One work-around is to change the windows default to something other than OPEN (say notepad or some other editor) and then you can use the right-click to explicitly send it to PC SAS.

Another approach is to use Enterprise Guide as your SAS user interface (there is a paradigm shift for old-time SAS users, but there are advantages after getting over the short learning curve). Then if you double-click on a filename with the .sas extension, it opens in a new task in EGuide.

Doc Muhlbaier
Duke

Re: how to suppress PC SAS from appending a .sas to another SAS file

JMarkW — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:16:35 GMT

I ran a setinit in our installation and didn't spot an Enterprise Guide.

Most of my co-workers are C and Java folks, I guess they will have to get used to opening .sas programs from PC SAS instead of Windows.

Re: how to suppress PC SAS from appending a .sas to another SAS file

data_null__ — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:30:37 GMT

I don't know how to get the OPEN behavior to change.

From windows Explorer, to open a file in EE I just drag and drop it into/onto an EE window. The file is opened in EE in a new tab. You can select a number of files and drop them -- all opened in separate EE tabs.

While not what you want perhaps an acceptable alternative.

Re: how to suppress PC SAS from appending a .sas to another SAS file

Doc_Duke — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:09:30 GMT

EGuide doesn't show in the setinit. It is a separate product that provides a GUI user interface to SAS in a client-server framework. I think that it comes bundled with SAS 9 for the PC, but your site rep would know for sure if you have it.