Was 'Name That Tune' rigged?  WWLD -- What Would Lombardi Do
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Date:         Thu, 20 Feb 2003 10:30:43 -0500
Reply-To:     Ian Whitlock <WHITLOI1@WESTAT.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Ian Whitlock <WHITLOI1@WESTAT.COM>
Subject:      Re: command line too long
Comments: To: Walter Shafron <waltshaf@ABARE.GOV.AU>
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Walter,

SYSPARM is meant for passing small amounts of control information.  Either
put the string in a file and use sysparm to pass the name of the file, or
put the string in an environment variable and use %SYSGET to obtain the
value of that variable.

IanWhitlock@westat.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Walter Shafron [mailto:waltshaf@ABARE.GOV.AU]
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 10:50 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: command line too long


I have a UNIX script that is calling a SAS program in V8.2 where I am
told (and I believe, having tested this) that the command line limit
is 2000 charcters. I was hoping that there was an option to increase
this, or some other workaround, other than me re-jigging the way I do
things.

The reason the command line is so long is because there is a long
string being passed to the program through the -sysparms command line
option.

I would appreciate any suggestions.