Thank you so much for trying to help! I often can't come to school to work on the computers bc I'm an MD and mom to two, so time at school is rare. I will be there later and will have to do this there, but I am sure there must be some way to get around the toolbar with code. This is what I get w the new lib name: 1 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK; 72 73 LIBNAME MCW623 '/folders/myfolders/'; NOTE: Libref MCW623 was successfully assigned as follows: Engine: V9 Physical Name: /folders/myfolders 74 DATA MCW623.five; 75 INFILE '/folders/myfolders/' 76 DLM = '09'X FIRSTOBS = 2; 77 INPUT room $ size $ bath $ TV $ overlook $ price discount breakfast lunch dinner bar; 78 RUN; ERROR: Invalid file, /folders/myfolders. NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors. WARNING: The data set MCW623.FIVE may be incomplete. When this step was stopped there were 0 observations and 11 variables. NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time): real time 0.01 seconds cpu time 0.02 seconds ... View more

These instructions are from my teacher, who claims to know nothing about Macs. For example, she wants me to use pointers (and then in another step use mixers) to put in raw data. She writes to run FSLIST in the command bar, then open filenamecol.txt, then run COLUMN ON in command bar. Then I can use @ to tell SAS the beginning column of a variable. I am sure there is a way to tell the program to do this without using the tool bar, but I have no instructions as to how to do it. With respect to creating permanent SAS datasets, this is the log I got when I tried to create one: 1 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK; 72 73 LIBNAME MCW623 '/folders/myfolders/hoteltab.txt'; ERROR: Library MCW623 is not in a valid format for access method RANDOM. ERROR: Error in the LIBNAME statement. 74 DATA MCW623.five; 75 INFILE '/folders/myfolders/hoteltab.txt' 76 DLM = '09'X FIRSTOBS = 2; 77 INPUT room $ size $ bath $ TV $ overlook $ price discount breakfast lunch dinner bar; 78 RUN; ERROR: Libref MCW623 is not assigned. NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors. NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time): real time 0.00 seconds cpu time 0.01 seconds ... View more