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gguidarelli
Calcite | Level 5
Hi. I have a SAS program where I want to make sure version 8 or higher of SAS is being used. If user mistakenly runs it using version 7 or earlier, I want to exit immediately with an appropriate message. But I can't find any function that SAS offers to let me determine the running version. Is there such a thing?

Thanks.
Greg
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RickM
Fluorite | Level 6
Look and see if the automatic macro variables &sysver or &sysvlong is what you want.
gguidarelli
Calcite | Level 5
Yes, that's exactly what I need.

Thanks Rick.
sbb
Lapis Lazuli | Level 10 sbb
Lapis Lazuli | Level 10
Why would you even have any SAS system installed that is prior to Version 8? Clearly you don't expect to get software defect/fix support with that type of environment. You really need to move those users up to a "supported" SAS version, which would be at least SAS version 9 and ideally 9.1.3 SP4 or 9.2.

Scott Barry
SBBWorks, Inc.
gguidarelli
Calcite | Level 5
Just playing it safe Scott. For whatever reason, the versions haven't been removed. We're not using them, but they're still accessible.

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