Date:         Tue, 17 Jul 2001 08:13:11 -0400
Reply-To:     "Fehd, Ronald J." <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Fehd, Ronald J." <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
Subject:      Re: How to prevent SAS from blanking out a file
Comments: To: "Valone, Toren W." <TValone@DMV.CA.GOV>
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if you are using SAS programs to analyse your log files
and build your other two files:
you'll want to examine the file options mod and old

Ron Fehd  the macro maven  CDC Atlanta GA USA RJF2@cdc.gov
OpSys: WinNT   Ver: 8.1
remember perspective: the error is not always where it seems to occur! --
RJF2

> From: Valone, Toren W. [mailto:TValone@DMV.CA.GOV]
> Hi all, I have several programs that analyze a log file. If certain
> conditions are right in the file, the program builds another
> two files. When conditions are not right I would like SAS to
> leave those two
> files alone. Even though the log says that nothing
> has been written to the files, when I look at the files they
> are blank.
>