SAS Work Environment

Batch

• Write programs using an ascii text editor:
  • vi or vim
  • ne
  • pico
    
  • SAS program editor
• To invoke SAS in batch, right-click on the SAS file and choose "batch".
  Once the batch job has finished, there will be two new files:
  • One file will have the .log extension (i.e., filename.log).
  • One file will have the .lst extension (i.e., filename.lst).
• Both files, .log and .lst, are plain text files that have page breaks (denoted with "^L") in them for printing purposes.  These files can be opened in any text editor but do not double-click on them to open them. 

Windowing Environment (a.k.a. Display Manager)

• Invoke the Windowing Environment:
  • Double-click the SAS icon on your desktop.
• Write programs using the Program Editor window.
  • Customize the Program Editor window.
  • Open more than one Program Editor window in your SAS session.
• Submit the entire program or just a part of the program.
• Notes, warnings and error messages appear in the Log window.
• Results appear in the Output window.
  • Create standard SAS listing results.
  • Create HTML formatted results and send them to your preferred browser.  MS-Excel and MS-Word can read/open up an html file.  The results will be in a table format.
    
• Print from any of the windows.