topic Re: ".seg" program file extension in Statistical Procedures

".seg" program file extension

Rodolia — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 05:31:37 GMT

Hello all,

I am a biologist and I received a program from a friend which calculate some biological parameters. My friend uses it in SAS 8.0 on windows XP.

However, I can not open this program in SAS on windows 10. The file extension is “.seg”. I cannot open it in SAS and I see no SAS files with such extension.

I attach a screenshot of the program opened in my friend’s desktop. I also send the link for downloading the program. Please help me, how may I open and use it. (https://rapidshare.io/1KvD/caro.seg)

All the best,

Mehdi

Re: ".seg" program file extension

Patrick — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 05:56:25 GMT

.seg is the file extension for an ancient version of SAS Enterprise Guide (as is SAS version 8). Current EG versions store projects as .egp.

You need SAS EG version 4.1 to open the .seg file and then store it as a .egp as documented here: https://support.sas.com/kb/45/006.html

or here: https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/egdoccdc/8.2/egug/p1nbgpxgue8fmjn1ojzvoh17imer.htm

If you don't have an EG 4.1 version then I can only think of 2 options:

1. Ask your friend to store the programs in his EG project as external .sas files and then use these .sas files

2. Contact SAS TechSupport and ask if they can convert your .seg to a .egp

Re: ".seg" program file extension

Rodolia — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 09:03:26 GMT

Thank you very much Patrick,

My friend sent me the program in .sas file. All the program parts are after each other and I cannot use them. Because as you see in the EG screenshot, it is consisted of different parts and must be run separately. I don’t have it like this in .sas format.

I contacted SAS TechSupport, but still didn’t receive answer.

Do you think I can get help in programming forum?

All the best,

Re: ".seg" program file extension

Rodolia — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 09:06:54 GMT

Or is it possible that I open it (.sas) in current EG and then store it as a .egp ?

Re: ".seg" program file extension

Kurt_Bremser — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 11:42:25 GMT

Your friend needs to save each separate node to its own .sas file, so you can rebuild the process flow in your EG from the parts.

Re: ".seg" program file extension

Rodolia — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 19:11:45 GMT

Thank you very much.
I could save each separate node to its own .sas file (I hope I did correctly).
I don’t have knowledge on rebuild the process flow in EG from the parts.
Is it possible that somebody does it for me?
I uploaded them here:
https://rapidshare.io/2aBi/separate_sas_files_of_Isabelle_program.rar

Re: ".seg" program file extension

Kurt_Bremser — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 19:30:43 GMT

So you have the old Enterprise Guide available? Look at the process flow in there.

If there is none, then you need documentation about the required sequence.

Re: ".seg" program file extension

Patrick — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 11:25:46 GMT

If you know how the flow needs to look like:

1. drag all .sas files into your EG project canvas

2. pick the first .sas file (node), right click on it, select link from the menu

This will give you a Window where you can select the 2nd node

...and so on until you've built the flow you need.