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SAS Tip: Find the name of the operating system

Posted 02-12-2018 02:05 PM (143922 views)

The name of the Operating System, OS, is stored in the automatic SAS macro variable &SYSSCP.

Thanks to Art Carpenter and Mary Rosenbloom for this tip. Read more details in this paper from WUSS 2017: I've Got to Hand It to You: Portable Programming Techniques.

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