topic Re: Simple question on making a .bat file to execute a sas program. in SAS Procedures https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Simple-question-on-making-a-bat-file-to-execute-a-sas-program/m-p/124148#M34144 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><PRE __jive_macro_name="quote" class="jive_text_macro jive_macro_quote" modifiedtitle="true"> <P style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><SPAN lang="EN" style="color: #575757; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">When I run the following batch file: "C:\Program<BR />Files\SASHome\SASFoundation\9.3\SAS.exe" –sysin<BR />"C:\sprogram.sas"</SPAN></P> </PRE><P>Wild guess here ... the character before SYSIN looks like an em dash or an en dash, it does not look like a hyphen</P><P></P><P>Make sure it is a hyphen and try again</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:46:13 GMT PaigeMiller 2013-02-28T20:46:13Z Simple question on making a .bat file to execute a sas program. https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Simple-question-on-making-a-bat-file-to-execute-a-sas-program/m-p/124147#M34143 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P style="background: white;"><SPAN lang="EN" style="color: #575757; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Hi Community,</SPAN></P><P></P><P></P><P style="background: white;"><SPAN lang="EN" style="color: #575757; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">When I run the following batch file: "C:\Program<BR />Files\SASHome\SASFoundation\9.3\SAS.exe" –sysin<BR />"C:\sprogram.sas"</SPAN></P><P></P><P></P><P style="background: white;"><SPAN lang="EN" style="color: #575757; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">I get the following error message:</SPAN></P><P></P><P></P><P style="background: white;"><SPAN lang="EN" style="color: #575757; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">ERROR: Unrecognized SAS option name SPROGRAM.SAS.</SPAN></P><P></P><P></P><P style="background: white;"><SPAN lang="EN" style="color: #575757; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">ERROR: (SASXKRIN):<BR />KERNEL RESOURCE INITIALIZATION FAILED.</SPAN></P><P></P><P></P><P style="background: white;"><SPAN lang="EN" style="color: #575757; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">ERROR: Unable to<BR />initialize the SAS kernel.</SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:12:01 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Simple-question-on-making-a-bat-file-to-execute-a-sas-program/m-p/124147#M34143 bjbreitling 2013-02-28T20:12:01Z Re: Simple question on making a .bat file to execute a sas program. https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Simple-question-on-making-a-bat-file-to-execute-a-sas-program/m-p/124148#M34144 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><PRE __jive_macro_name="quote" class="jive_text_macro jive_macro_quote" modifiedtitle="true"> <P style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><SPAN lang="EN" style="color: #575757; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">When I run the following batch file: "C:\Program<BR />Files\SASHome\SASFoundation\9.3\SAS.exe" –sysin<BR />"C:\sprogram.sas"</SPAN></P> </PRE><P>Wild guess here ... the character before SYSIN looks like an em dash or an en dash, it does not look like a hyphen</P><P></P><P>Make sure it is a hyphen and try again</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:46:13 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Simple-question-on-making-a-bat-file-to-execute-a-sas-program/m-p/124148#M34144 PaigeMiller 2013-02-28T20:46:13Z Re: Simple question on making a .bat file to execute a sas program. https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Simple-question-on-making-a-bat-file-to-execute-a-sas-program/m-p/124149#M34145 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Correct!&nbsp; I did just find that out my self too, but thanks!</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:48:04 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Simple-question-on-making-a-bat-file-to-execute-a-sas-program/m-p/124149#M34145 bjbreitling 2013-02-28T20:48:04Z Re: Simple question on making a .bat file to execute a sas program. https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Simple-question-on-making-a-bat-file-to-execute-a-sas-program/m-p/124150#M34146 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>They look the same in notepad...</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:49:41 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Simple-question-on-making-a-bat-file-to-execute-a-sas-program/m-p/124150#M34146 bjbreitling 2013-02-28T20:49:41Z