Menu appears then disappears

[cosmid]

I'm running SAS through Linux with sas & command. When I left click File on the editor window, the menu blinked, appeared then disappeared, but other menus are fine. Yesterday, when I clicked on Tool, same thing happened, but File and other menu were ok. Anyone know what causes this and how to fix it?

Also, I'm pretty new to running SAS on Linux. I just want to make sure I'm understanding the following command and files correctly:

To run a .sas file, for example test.sas, use the command sas test.sas?

A sas file ends in .lst are the result, so from the above example, a test.lst will be generated?

And the .log files are the logs.

I just want to make sure these are correct. Because I can't find any books or tutorials on this. Thanks.

[SASKiwi · Accepted solution]

You can search the SAS documentation for help on running SAS in batch mode like this: https://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=hostunx&docsetTarget=n0x9esc5c95qg4n1wogx5u2k7354.htm&docset...

However if you developing programs it is much better to use one of the SAS windowing environments. Batch is much better suited to running Production programs.

[cosmid]

Thanks for the info! That website will be a great help for me since I'm running SAS on Linux. And you are right, windows is much better but I don't have much choice here.

[SASKiwi]

Not even an X-windows session on linux?!

[cosmid]

Um...not exactly sure what X windows are. I use SAS & on command to open SAS and it there's a separate window for log, output, editor, etc. It's really annoying. The editor is horrible too. I guess I was spoiled by SAS Windows.