Date:         Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:07:59 -0400
Reply-To:     Jim Groeneveld <jim.1stat@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Jim Groeneveld <jim.1stat@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: The mystery of the SAS import wizard and the new printer
Comments: To: Paul Swank <Paul.R.Swank@UTH.TMC.EDU>

Hi Paul,

See also the discussions about this from a month ago on SAS-L:
http://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S2=sas-l&D=1&O=D&q=&0=S&s=excel+2007&f=&a=august+2008&b=
http://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S2=sas-l&D=1&O=D&q=&0=S&s=mentally&f=&a=august+2008&b=

SAS support additionally pointed me towards a patch on the SAS side:
http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/ve9/accpcff/e9pf04/win/e9pf04wn.txt
http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/ve9/accpcff/e9pf04/win/e9pf04wn.exe

Regards - Jim.
--
Jim Groeneveld, Netherlands
Statistician, SAS consultant
home.hccnet.nl/jim.groeneveld


On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:12:00 -0500, Swank, Paul R <Paul.R.Swank@UTH.TMC.EDU>
wrote:

>Someone sent me an excel spreadsheet that they wanted me to do some
>analysis on. Fine. I import excel files into SAS all the time. Not so
>fast. It wouldn't import it. Kept giving me a libname error. One of my
>colleagues said he had had a similar problem one time when he was
>printing to a printer that was not his default. Mine was set to the
>default  printer. Just for fun, because I had recently changed my
>default printer, changed to the original default printer. Now I could
>import the file! But if I change the default printer back to the new
>printer, I can't import the file. Is this just an alpha printer that
>doesn't want to be forsaken or is there some reason for this?
>
>
>
>Paul
>
>
>
>Paul R. Swank, Ph.D
>
>Professor and Director of Research
>
>Children's Learning Institute
>
>University of Texas Health Science Center
>
>Houston, TX 77038
>
>