> From: Bucher Scott > Commands in autoexec.sas are read whenever SAS is started.You can put > this in the root directory or elsewhere if you specify its location in > the SAS startup command. > > However, if you need to change these often or you want to make it more > evident to people reading you programs that these macros are being > created, perhaps it may be preferrable to place all these > commnads in a > file you reference with %include at the top of every program.

the command to echo -- i.e.: source2 -- the statements in the autoexec is:

-echoauto

note that this is a command line, or config file -only option

- - - MyProgram.bat - - - sas MyProgram -echoauto

if you want to do this -every- time, -- which I do not recommend -- then the appropriate place is in SASv9.cfg

- - - SASv9.cfg - - - -SASinitialFolder '.' -echoauto

What I -do- recommend, for this Q, is:

- - - autoexec.sas - - -

%Let Libname = Library; %Let Memname = MyData;

%Put _global_;

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