Date:         Mon, 20 Jun 2005 21:07:17 -0400
Reply-To:     Lou <lpogodajr292185@COMCAST.NET>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Lou <lpogodajr292185@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: General question about SAS version 9
Comments: To: sas-l@uga.edu

"Nat Wooding" <Nathaniel_Wooding@DOM.COM> wrote in message
news:OF431F7FD9.DCA1C058-ON85257026.0061339D@dom.com...
> Maura
>
> Unless you have a licensing agreement that is new to me, you have already
> paid for version 9. Updates are included in the annual licensing fees
which
> SAS Institute charges.
>
> You will find that the institute works very hard to keep the system as
> compatible as possible as updates come. In the past, there were a couple
> major changes such as a requirement that strings be enclosed in quotes but
> these were brought on as SAS moved from the mainframe to multiple
platforms
> and operating systems.
>
> One item to be aware of: V9 will read a V8 data set but V8 cannot read a
V9
> set. Hence, if you go through a transition of running both versions, you
> will have to watch how you store your data.
>
Not quite accurate - as long as you stick to V8 conventions, version 8 will
read a version 9 datasets.