Date:         Thu, 14 Feb 2002 14:45:53 +0000
Reply-To:     John Whittington <John.W@MEDISCIENCE.CO.UK>
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From:         John Whittington <John.W@MEDISCIENCE.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: version 9 is on windows 98
Comments: To: Peter Crawford <peter.crawford@DB.COM>
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At 14:55 14/02/02 +0100, Peter Crawford wrote (in part):

>For those running SAS on win98, concerned that version 9 will not support
>their present op.sys ( according to recent postings on SAS-L )
>may take some encouragement from the closing section of usage note 6147
>It was announced today in SNOTES-L update for 14Feb2002
>......
>So if this issue as fixed, I assume/hope the rest of the SAS System
>Version 9 is/will be available on each of these platforms, including Windows 98

Maybe - or it could be a typo!  Also, I'm not sure that anyone has ever
said that version 9 will not necessarily _run_ on, say, Win98 - it may be
more of a question of it not being 'supported'.  It is therefore possible
that bugs affecting only 'unsupported' platforms would not be addressed -
but that fixes necessary for other platforms might (usually would, I
imagine, if it would run on thsoe platforms at all) also 'fix' the problem
in 'unsupported' platforms ... but that's all wild conjecture.

This is where we have to hope that some birdies are around!

Kind Regards,


John

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