About opening sas files in sas online environment

[ChuksManuel]

Dear all,

I normally use the SAS software installed in our university computer but i am having to work remotely and therefore i am using the online free version from the sas website. I discovered that all the sas files (.sas) could not be opened in this online sas environment. However, excel, txt and csv files could open. Is there any reason for this? It seems strange that the sas online version at sas.com would not support SAS files.

I hope to get your input about this.

Thanks!

[Cynthia_sas · Accepted solution]

Hi:

  On a local machine or a lab machine, a double-click of a .SAS file can launch a local application. But a double click on a .SAS file cannot launch a web browser, traverse to a web site and provide your logon credentials to a server like the SAS OnDemand server. To get your .SAS files up on the server, you can make a folder in your /home folder (if you are using SAS OnDemand for Academics) and then upload the .SAS files to SAS Studio. OR, you can open the files locally using Notepad or Wordpad and then Copy/Paste (Ctrl+C then Ctrl+V) into your SAS Studio editor.

Hope this helps,

cynthia

[ChuksManuel]

Thanks! That was very helpful.

[Tom]

It is not clear what you are talking about.

How are you running SAS online? Are you using SAS/Studio? Are you connecting to a virtual Windows machine and running Enterprise Guide?  Or perhaps even running SAS Display Manager on Windows or Unix machine?

All of those systems allow you to open SAS program files, edit them, save them, run them.  You might need to upload the file, but you would need to upload the other file types you mentioned also.