Solved: Double-spaced output

Sarah-R · Posted 04-15-2022 12:08 PM

I get double-spaced output (for example, proc compare output) when I batch submit on SAS 9.4. Interactive submission of SAS programs works fine, and is producing single-spaced output.

Is anyone experiencing the same issue when you batch submit your programs on SAS 9.4?

Anyone know a solution to making batch submission produce single-spaced output like the interactive submission?

Sarah-R · Posted 04-19-2022 08:40 PM

Delete SAS profile files, and when a SAS program is run again, it will reproduce the profile files, and show the default setting of single-spaced output.

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mkeintz · Posted 04-15-2022 01:16 PM

Are you getting this behavior for the sas log as well as the sas print output?

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Tom · Posted 04-16-2022 01:21 AM

How are you viewing the files generated by your batch (background) run?

Perhaps your viewer is just wrapping long lines?

Or treating the end-of-line characters as end-of-paragraph characters and so inserting a blank line between all of those "paragraphs".

Sarah-R · Posted 04-19-2022 08:40 PM

Delete SAS profile files, and when a SAS program is run again, it will reproduce the profile files, and show the default setting of single-spaced output.

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