Glad you liked it Ksharp.  You should check out my new post about creating a text cipher. http://communities.sas.com/thread/31296?tstart=0 ... View more

It has been several years since I used sas on mainframe, and many more since I did so through a mac os, but I remember using the following terminal emulator when I connected to the IBM 3270 mainframe we were using at the time.  It looks like it has been maintained through current versions os mac os too. http://www.brown.edu/cis/tn3270/ From windows I used to be fond of Reflections, but i do not this they make a version for mac.  One other that comes to mind is called ZOC, like Reflections though, is not a free software. ... View more

Okay, I think I understand better now what the meaning of this is.  These are generic keyboard macros, not specific to the SAS editors. ... View more

Bit of an improvement on the previous version.  This takes about 10 seconds to run on my PC, again for 10 steps. Changes were: reduce the format length stored down from 100, to whatever is required to store the current words add complev's limiter at 2 (i.e. stops counting the difference once it hits 2). That got me about 50% saving. I then realised I could calculate all permutations of X-letter words prior to the looping, which pretty much trivialised the running time. data _null_; datetime = put(datetime(),datetime20.); putlog datetime=; run; %let start=black; %let end=white; %let max_links = 10; %put &start.; %put &end.; %put &max_links.; data words; infile 'c:\unix-words'; format word $22.; input word $; if length(word) = length("&start.") then output; run; data words; format word $%length(&start.).; set words; run; proc sql; create table wordlinks as select monotonic() as n format 8., words.word as old_word, words2.word as new_word from words, words as words2 where complev(words.word,words2.word,2,"il") = 1; quit; %macro wordchain(); proc sql; create table wordchain_1 as select 0 as found, words.word as word_1 from words where words.word = "&start."; quit; %do i = 2 %to &max_links;       %put &i.;       %let j = %eval(&i - 1);       %put &j.;       proc sql;       create table wordchain_&i. as       select             (wordchain_&j..found or wordlinks.new_word = "&end.") as found,             wordchain_&j..*,             wordlinks.new_word as word_&i.       from             wordchain_&j.             left join wordlinks on       (       wordchain_&j..word_&j = wordlinks.old_word       )       and       (       %do n = 1 %to &j.;             %if &n > 1 %then and;             wordlinks.new_word ~= wordchain_&j..word_&n.       %end;       )       and wordchain_&j..word_&j. ~= "&end." /*    and length(words.word) = length("&end.")*/       where       calculated found       or (not (calculated found) and wordlinks.old_word is not missing)       ;       quit; %end; %leave:; %mend; %wordchain(); data solutions; set wordchain_&max_links.; where found = 1; array words{*} word_1-word_&max_links.; count = 0; do i = 1 to dim(words);     if missing(words{i}) then leave;     count = count + 1; end; drop i; run; proc sort data=solutions; by count; run; data _null_; datetime = put(datetime(),datetime20.); putlog datetime=; run; ... View more

Bruce, I experienced the same thing on Windows 7. The fix is quite simple: select any *.sas and right click then select open with. In the “open with” menu, select “The SAS System for Windows” instead of “SAS 9.2 for Windows”. Then we saw the *.sas icon changed from the SAS 9.2 grey-and-yellow downward triangle to the usual text-pad-black-person submit image. All the “Batch submit” options are now available when I right-click on a SAS file. “The SAS system for Windows” is a Windows application that integrate SAS options with Windows menu. Previously, I set “SAS 9.2 for Windows” as the default program to open *.sas files, and the right-click menu didn't have "batch submit". ... View more