I found this discussion because I recently started having the same problem and have not been able to resolve it. I often work with large files and frequently stop execution but I have always used the ! button. It has happened with a variety of coding so I can't pinpoint any particular pattern. I have used SAS for a number of years and only recently experienced this problem so I don't think it's inherent to SAS. The only change recently has been our conversion to Windows 7. I am running SAS 9.2 on a Win7 32-bit laptop. The recent code I ran that appears to have created a problem was a very basic SQL query on one table. I plan to email the SAS tech folks since I've had some good success with them in the past but any ideas would be helpful.
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