Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 09:17:07 -0700
Reply-To: "William W. Viergever" <wwvierg@IBM.NET>
Sender: "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From: "William W. Viergever" <wwvierg@IBM.NET>
Subject: Re: SAS Viewer, V7, LOG file size limitation
In-Reply-To: <QryMOBA+zod3EwtZ@crawfordsoftware.demon.co.uk>
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Try www.buerg.com.
He's just down the proverbial road from me.
Have used this since the 80's, even under OS/2. I haven't used it much here under NT though, since I can't seem to get to work in a 132 column NT prompt-box, it keeps revertin gback to an 80 column display which I find annoying.
Later
P.S. It has built in HEX and EBCDIC viewers *and* List Enhanced handles 500 MB files.
Their Plus version goes fro $37 and Enhanced for $99.
Over & Out
At 09:43 PM 6/27/99 +0100, Peter Crawford wrote:
>An "old friend" among useful tools is list.com
>I'm using this version....
> LIST Version 9.1c 1/31/95
> (c) Copyright Vernon D. Buerg 1983-95
>Sorry I can't offer a web address, --try
>Vernon D. Buerg FAX: (707) 778-8728
>Buerg Software BBS: (707) 778-8944
>139 White Oak Circle Voice: (707) 778-1811
>Petaluma, CA 94952 CIS: 70007,1212; GO SWREG, ID 417
>
>Originally written for DOS, it can be win-enabled (suitable PIF options)
>This allows browsing of any file as plain text of hex-dump format, with
>many other options.
>Of course, there are some limitations
>- only the first 32MB of your log - hopefully enough
>
>
>Droogendyk, Harry <Harry_Droogendyk@NEWCOURT.COM> writes
>>We had somewhat the same problem trying to read SAS logs using a SAS
>>program. Read so many records ( about 1900 I think ) then quit without an
>>error, almost life it hit EOF. What funny characters is SAS burying in the
>>log? Anybody out there with the ability to display ASCII in hex?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tim Churches [mailto:tchur@BIGPOND.COM]
>> Sent: Monday, June 21, 1999 3:46 PM
>> To: SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU
>> Subject: Re: SAS Viewer, V7, LOG file size limitation
>>
>> David Johnson <david_h_johnson@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
>> > My SAS session created a LOG (ALTLOG) file 97kb in size.
>>Opened in the
>> > Viewer, I seemed to be missing a substantial portion of
>>the LOG from the
>> > end.
>> >
>> > Suspecting some control character was causing the problem,
>>I browsed it in
>> > WordPad and retrieved the whole file. I edited out a
>>portion of the
>> > beginning and Lo, SAS Viewer now showed a little more at
>>the end.
>> >
>> > Is anyone aware of a file size limitation in the Viewer
>>and whether this
>> can
>> > be circumvented?
>>
>> David,,
>>
>> We struck the same problem. Initially we thought that the V7
>>SAS Viewer
>> would be just the thing for visually reviewing log files
>>from SAS programmes
>> submitted in batch mode, because it automatically colour
>>highlights NOTEs
>> and ERRORs (in red). But its inability to display SAS logs
>>of more than
>> about 50k renders it useless. There is no error message, and
>>it appears to
>> load the entire log file (even very large ones of 500k or
>>more), but you
>> can't scroll down (or page down) past the first 50k or so. I
>>loaded the
>> latest version (as at three weeks ago) downloaded from the
>>SAS web site and
>> it behaves in exactly the same way. Large text files are no
>>problem - it
>> just chokes on some characters in SAS logs.
>>
>> Tim Churches
>
>--
>Peter Crawford
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