Date:         Thu, 13 Mar 2003 14:10:13 -0800
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From:         "David L. Cassell" <cassell.david@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV>
Subject:      Re: exec win2k resource utilities
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fernd alois <ferndalois@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
> I use some win2k resourcekit utilities on the sas win2k server to get
some
> knowledge about the processes , used memory ea
> This goes by the mechanism
>    filename  test pipe "pslist.exe SAS" ;
>    data _null_ ;
>    infile .....
>
> With some resource kit utilities utilities I get no answer ; I think
this is
> because these  utilities use stderr    and not stdout
> Is there a way to read  the stderr output from the pipe by using
> the unix symbols   > & 2 or by another way ?

As a SAS-L expert pointed out, this is a shell issue, and win32 doesn't
have the sort of shells available in unix.

Instead, you could use a language like Perl or Python to run the
utility,
grab the stderr, and then hold that information so that you could use
FILENAME to pipe that to SAS.

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