<<Richard Dickinson asks>> Based on the documentation I've read (SAS 6.11 for Windows), SAS is always the client in a DDE situation. This means that another application cannot send any commands to SAS. Is this limitation being addressed? What about later releases of SAS? Anyone on the list dealt with a situation where they needed SAS to be commanded by another application? <<end question>>

SAS 6.12, under Windows 95 and Windows NT, can act as an "OLE Automation Server" and have other applications send commands or submit programs to it. I believe that this capability may also be present in experimental form in 6.11. See the paper by Clegg and Rigsbee in the SUGI 22 Proceedings.

Mike Rhoads Westat RhoadsM1@Westat.com