A good point but what do expect with an old character mode app? <g>.

At 03:36 PM 6/28/99 +1000, Tim CHURCHES wrote: >Peter, > >There are any number of file viewers available, but none of them do colour >highlighting of ERROR and NOTE messages in a SAS log file, which is what the >SAS V7 Viewer does, except only on small files as we have seen. > >Tim Churches > >>>> Peter Crawford <Peter@CRAWFORDSOFTWARE.DEMON.CO.UK> 28/June/1999 06:43am >>>> >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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