At 12:50 18/04/00 -0500, Jaclyn Whitehorn wrote (in part):

>This is the way I see it: >1. SAS written docs are very good. >2. SAS written docs are fairly expensive. >3. SAS written docs never came with the software before. >4. In our university setting, very few departments purchase the SAS >written docs (see 2).

I can understand that (4) may be a problem, but (3) is not necessarily true - since, for at least some licences, a full set of relevant written docs always *have* come with the software. It's certainly true that, as the owner of a humble single-user licence, I have always received a full set of relevant written docs with the software, at no charge. Acoordingly, if I now receive (unless I pay extra) something less in quality/usefulness than 'a full set of written docs', that will represent an inferior situation as compared with what I have always enjoyed until now.

Universities usually get extremely cheap SAS licensing deals - which might, understandably, make SI a somewhat less than generous as regards 'free written documentation'.

Kind Regards

John

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