Larry Hoyle wrote: > > Our university recently site licensed an anti virus package partly over the > Y2k virus scare. > > I just spent an amusing :>) hour tracking down odd behavior of a SAS program > which writes HTML to a file. It seems that having dynamic virus protection > enabled (using Command anti-virus) would interfere with the SAS program's > ability to reopen the output file for append. I guess the anti-virus program > would be scanning the file when the SAS program wanted to append to it and > that section of the SAS program would fail with a warning that the file was > in use by another program. > > Turning off the active protection while running the SAS program made the > problem go away.

Not only that, but anti-virus packages can hose your *install* of SAS [or other large packages] as well. _caveat_utor_ .

David -- David Cassell, OAO cassell@mail.cor.epa.gov Senior Computing Specialist mathematical statistician