Hey All,

After an OS upgrade from win2k to XP (sp2), some SAS code that always used to run now causes my session to hang indefinitely (or at least way longer than I'm willing to wait :-). The code is:

filename crn_macs FTP "CRN_VDW_MACROS.sas" HOST = "centerforhealthstudies.org" CD = "/CRNSAS" PASS = "not_the_password" USER = "CRNReader" DEBUG ;

In the log I see:

============================================= NOTE: 220 CHSORG Microsoft FTP Service (Version 5.0). NOTE: <<< 220 CHSORG Microsoft FTP Service (Version 5.0). NOTE: >>> USER CRNReader NOTE: <<< 331 Password required for CRNReader. NOTE: >>> PASS XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX NOTE: <<< 230 User CRNReader logged in. NOTE: >>> PORT 164,72,82,98,8,116 NOTE: <<< 200 PORT command successful. NOTE: >>> TYPE A NOTE: <<< 200 Type set to A. NOTE: >>> CWD /CRNSAS NOTE: <<< 250 CWD command successful. NOTE: >>> PWD NOTE: <<< 257 "/CRNSAS" is current directory. NOTE: >>> RETR CRN_VDW_MACROS.sas NOTE: <<< 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for CRN_VDW_MACROS.sas(0 bytes). ERROR: User asked for termination NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors. NOTE: DATA statement used: real time 4:03.51 cpu time 0.04 seconds ================================================

The session hangs right before that "user asked for termination" error.

Anybody got a clue for me? The box is subject to fairly heavy corporate config--lots of group policy & such. I'm guessing there are closed ports that need to be opened for this to work, but am not sure how to dx such things.

Thanks!

-Roy