How are you launching SAS?  Entering a command on the command line? Clicking on some icon on the desktop or in the Start menu?  Clicking on some file that is associated with SAS?   When does the sound appear? Try turning off the SPLASH option.   Do you have an autoexec.sas file?  Look for the system options that control whether the code and notes from running the autoexec file appear in the log.     ... View more

Thank you all for your replies.  It turns out using the XLSX engine as Tom suggested solved the issue.  I included the additional options suggested by ballardw, but didn't notice any different behavior from excluding them. ... View more

:edit:  I answered my question.   Thank you all for your suggestions.  The following code worked. %let lltract=32.3861,-99.7583; %let llmsa=32.4101,-99.8114; filename google url "http://maps.google.com/maps?daddr=&llmsa.%nrstr(&saddr)=&lltract"; data drive (drop = m); infile google scanover; llmsa = symget('llmsa'); lltract = symget('lltract'); m = -13; input @'miles\"'+m miles $34.; run; filename google clear; You can use truncover with scanover.  See example #3.  http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrdict/64316/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a000146932.htm   ... View more