Randy Herbison <RandyHerbison@WESTAT.COM> replied to Ya Huang: > The TERMINAL device-type is included in the SAS OnlineDoc for the FILENAME statement. > > Unlike the data step WINDOW statement, it works even after the SAS AWS has > been minimized.

A very nice snippet. This might make a nice Coder's Corner paper. And since I think I met every single Westat SAS programmer *except* you at SUGI this year... :-)

> A couple of potential drawbacks are that all text written to the terminal > window remains in the window for the entire SAS session, and the user must > close the window to terminate the SAS session.

If these are serious drawbacks for the user's app, these can be dodged around by an alternative. One could write a short program using the Tk interface. This could be in Perl, Python, Tcl, etc. Then, under the desired conditions, one could launch an X command which would run the program. By using noxwait and noxsync, one could get SAS to continue without waiting for the window. And one could stick a button in the window so that clicking on the button closes the little Tk window, or...

David -- David Cassell, CSC Cassell.David@epa.gov Senior computing specialist mathematical statistician