Date:         Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:27:24 -0400
Reply-To:     T J <tj_noreply@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         T J <tj_noreply@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Unix Viewtable

I am relieved that it wasn't just me myself alone that has been troubled by
this "new" feature of SAS(I don't remember v6, v7, even earlier versions of
v8 that displays the table's label by default).  Output tables from proc
freq and means also have extranous labels such "frequency and count ...".
I am hoping someone from SI is reading this thread and change the settings
of viewtable.

There was a round of dicussions in OCT2007 on the same topic.  If you
search the archives using "VIEWTABLE", you will find them.  The solutions
are:

1. (extra coding effort):  proc freq ; table this / out=out1(label=' ');

2. VT &SYSLAST.(label="&SYSLAST.") (see post#347388, by Richard D)

3. A macro solution that will delete all table labels in the WORK library
with a single function key stroke(post#347405)


Regards,

-TJ



On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:51:51 -0400, Kevin Viel <citam.sasl@GMAIL.COM>
wrote:

>Perhaps the most straight forward question that I have asked in while...
>
>While viewing SAS datasets using the SAS Explorer in Unix, the name of the
>table is not always shown, but rather a label.  For instance, if I use ODS
>to output the parameter estimates from a GENMOD run, then I output a second
>set of parameter estimates from a second, altered run, I cannot distinguish
>the datasets by name in the window.  Can I change this?  If so, how?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Kevin