Date:         Wed, 10 Oct 2001 15:09:59 -0700
Reply-To:     "Terjeson, Mark" <TerjeMW@DSHS.WA.GOV>
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From:         "Terjeson, Mark" <TerjeMW@DSHS.WA.GOV>
Subject:      Re: Problems using command line -work("library-specification") op
              tion
Comments: To: "Miller, John" <millerj@WSIPP.WA.GOV>
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Hi John,

Try:

"d:\sasv8\SAS.EXE" -work "D:\temp" -sysin c:\temp\abc.sas

This seems to work better.

Hope this is helpful,
Mark Terjeson
Washington State Department of Social and Health Services
Division of Research and Data Analysis (RDA)
mailto:terjemw@dshs.wa.gov




-----Original Message-----
From: Miller, John [mailto:millerj@WSIPP.WA.GOV]
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 1:32 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Problems using command line -work("library-specification")
option


I am hoping that some among you have experience with this issue:

The following demonstrates my problem.

I can submit a program from the command line and it runs fine:

>"C:\Program Files\SAS Institute\SAS\V8\SAS.EXE" MyProg.sas

When I attempt to change the WORK directory to a network drive (which has
sufficient space to accommodate the real process I need to run) ...

>"C:\Program Files\SAS Institute\SAS\V8\SAS.EXE" -work("T:\") MyProg.sas

... I get the SAS Error:
   ERROR: Unrecognized SAS option name, WORK("T:\").

And after clicking okay to that I see:
   (SASXKRIN): KERNAL RESOURCE INITIALIZATION FAILED.

Followed by one last dialog box:
   UNABLE TO INITIALIZE THE SAS KERNAL


Additional info:

I am running SAS 8.0 on Win2000 (problem replicated on one of our NT
workstations).

Thanks in advance for you help.