Hi:
ODS LISTING CLOSE; before your PROC TABULATE code should prevent the output from going to the LISTING or OUTPUT window. I'm not quite sure if that is what you mean when you refer to "the output to the print file from tabulate". If you are using SAS Enterprise Guide and you want to prevent the automatic creation of SASReport or HTML output, then you would need to alter the EG code to have
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ODS _ALL_ CLOSE;
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before the TABULATE step.
cynthia