Tony,

About 15 years ago I made a simple, q&d text conversion program (in BASIC) that converted any text file with only control characters 13+10 (CR+LF), 12 (FF) and 8 (BS for overprinting characters on multiple lines) into text with each line preceded by an (extra) Carriage Control Character (position 1). Those CCC's were: space = just print the line from position 2 + = start a new page and print from position 2 - = overprint the line from position 2 The very first 3 (or 4) lines of file were not printed, were suppressed as a result of paper feed. I could look it up at home, but I wonder whether you could use it.

Regards - Jim. -- Y. (Jim) Groeneveld, MSc IMRO TRAMARKO tel. +31 412 407 070 senior statistician, P.O. Box 1 fax. +31 412 407 080 senior data manager 5350 AA BERGHEM IMRO TRAMARKO: a CRO J.Groeneveld@ITGroups.com the Netherlands in clinical research

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> -----Original Message----- > From: Tony Harmon [SMTP:atharmonshirt@REMOVESHIRTSWBELL.NET] > Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 4:04 PM > To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU > Subject: print control characters on MVS > > All, > > We have some SAS programs that create reports that are ftp'd > to a mid-tier environment (AIX), and then converted to a pdf > document. Our problem is that SAS is not putting the print > control characters in the report and therefore the report > doesn't page correctly when printed or viewed by anything > other than the SAS system. Is there a parameter in PROC > PRINT that tells SAS to put in the print control characters? > > Thanks, > Tony