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How to Run SAS?

SAS can be run in interactive/menu DMS* mode on a PC or Mac or by submitting a program containing sas instructions. Even when the menus are used sas writes code which you can see and save to a file for susequent runs or for instruction. (*DMS stands for Display Manager System = menus).

Running a sas program generally involves the following steps:

1. Create the sas program (my.sas) using any editor (e.g. pico, vi, emacs or ??)
   mead% pico my.sas
2. run the sas program:
   mead% sas my.sas
3. look at the output log of the run (my.log) and output if requested (my.lst)
   mead% more my.log
   
   A sample SAS Program Step by Step

Options to use when starting sas

• specifying the work disk sas uses:
  mead% sas -work valid write disk path
  The default is to use 100 meg on /stat/tmp for sas work space
  
• specifying the amount of memory sas can use:
  mead% sas -memsize NNm
  mead% sas -memsize 32m
  The default is to use 16m (meg) of memory

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