I have a course project on experimental design I'm trying to port from VM/CMS to SAS 6.10 under Windoze in a Novell teaching lab. Students design an 'experiment' by creating a SAS data set which describes the factors and levels, and run a macro which generates simulated data.

One requirement to make this project work is that I have to be able to log a record to a file somewhere which identifies the student and their experimental design. Under CMS I did this by (a) the macro writes the record to the student's disk, then (b) mails the file to an account set up for this purpose.

I'm at a loss as to how to accomplish this under Novell. If I set up a shared directory in which students have write priviledges, one of them could wipe out or change the logged information. If they don't have write access, the SAS macro will fail.

Does anyone have any ideas?

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