Date:         Fri, 20 Jun 1997 11:17:46 EDT
Reply-To:     "F.Joseph Kelley" <JKELLEY@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
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From:         "F.Joseph Kelley" <JKELLEY@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: BATCH/INTERACTIVE mode recognition
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regarding foreground vs background execution (the macro var &SYSENV)
It seems OS/2 will always report "FORE".  Since the Windows and OS/2
versions share a good deal of code, my guess is that the Win versions
will do the same.
 
Here is the log from a pgm run from the prompt
 
 [e:\sas612a] sas -sysin f:\tstenv.sas
 
  tstenv.log
 
  1          data _null_ ;
  2            put '&SYSENV: '   "&sysenv" ;
  3          run ;
 
  &SYSENV: FORE
 
 
You would kinda think if it could tell DMS was not being used it would
report "BACK"  ... oh, well.
 
      -- Joe
         jkelley@uga.cc.uga.edu