Simple question on making a .bat file to execute a sas program.

[bjbreitling]

Hi Community,

When I run the following batch file: "C:\Program
Files\SASHome\SASFoundation\9.3\SAS.exe" –sysin
"C:\sprogram.sas"

I get the following error message:

ERROR: Unrecognized SAS option name SPROGRAM.SAS.

ERROR: (SASXKRIN):
KERNEL RESOURCE INITIALIZATION FAILED.

ERROR: Unable to
initialize the SAS kernel.

[PaigeMiller · Accepted solution]

When I run the following batch file: "C:\Program
Files\SASHome\SASFoundation\9.3\SAS.exe" –sysin
"C:\sprogram.sas"

Wild guess here ... the character before SYSIN looks like an em dash or an en dash, it does not look like a hyphen

Make sure it is a hyphen and try again

[bjbreitling]

Correct!  I did just find that out my self too, but thanks!

[bjbreitling]

They look the same in notepad...