ghellrieg@T-ONLINE.DE (Gerhard Hellriegel) writes:

> On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 16:05:43 GMT, Tony Harmon > <atharmonshirt@REMOVESHIRTSWBELL.NET> wrote: > > >ghellrieg@T-ONLINE.DE (Gerhard Hellriegel) writes: > > > >> On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 15:03:36 GMT, Tony Harmon > >> <atharmonshirt@REMOVESHIRTSWBELL.NET> wrote: > >> > >> >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 > >> > >> > >> Hm, I think the main problem there is, that the print control chars on > the > >> mainframe are the ASA - chars which on a AIX are only 1, -, +, ... but no > >> control-characters. > >> What about using ODS to produce something what also the AIX can handle? I > >> think it should be possible to produce formatted output in a standard > >> format, like HTML. I'm not really sure if it is possible to output PDFs > >> directly on the host machine, but I assume that it won't! But HTML could > be > >> converted to PDF on the AIX machine, I'm sure. The "normal" output will > not > >> contain any valid printer control chars. Another possibility: you can > >> produce a graphical output with proc gprint, e.g. GIFs, if you have graph > >> on the host. That should also be convertable to PDF. > > > >Thanks. On the mainframe we have a process that strips the mainframe > control > >characters and replaces them with the AIX equivalents. We then ftp the file > >down to the mid-tier where I have scripts that convert it to postscript > then > >to pdf. > > > >I think I may have found an answer: I found that in the FILE/FILENAME > keyword > >you can specify cc=<format>. The problem is that I am not a SAS programmer, > >and we don't have anyone available. Right now it does a PROC PRINTTO to > >associate the file that the PROC PRINT statements print to. I'm guessing I > >have to associate a FILE/FILENAME to that file first? > > > >Thanks, > >Tony > > Tony, I can't imagine, that CC does what you need! CC= is a mail option and > specifies a "carbon copy recipient" of a mail which you can send by SAS. > Maybe you do not use FTP to bring the results to the AIX, but you sent it > by a automaticly generated e-mail. > > Normally cc looks like > > cc='Joe Smith <joe§somplace.org>'

Maybe I'm looking at it wrong, but according to the documentation I have:

CC= specifies the carriage-control format of the SAS log and listing file. This option has three possible values:

FORTRAN indicates FORTRAN carriage-control format. This is the default for print files.

PRINT indicates OpenVMS print format.

CR indicates OpenVMS carriage-return, carriage-control format. This is the default for nonprinting files.

Only SAS print files are affected by the CC= option. The CC= option is used for output.

The CC= option also exists as a SAS system option (see CC=). If you specify this option both as a system option and in the FILENAME or FILE statement, then SAS uses the value that you specified in the FILENAME or FILE statement.

Tony