You can't, other than by pressing the Break key (probably Control-C). The only other option is to comment out the code that you don't want to run. The most general mothod is to put it inside a macro definition:

* Code that run goes here; %macro skip; * Code that doesn't run goes here.; %mend skip;

There are some other methods, involving the submission of marked blocks of text, but they're not as easy to use.

-- JackHamilton@FirstHealth.com Development Manager, Technical Group METRICS Department, First Health West Sacramento, California USA

>>> "Hoskins, Richard" <Richard.Hoskins@DOH.WA.GOV> 11/01/1999 11:54 am >>> Then how does one end a SAS program without shutting SAS down completely, that is, just stop processing?

Richard Hoskins

-----Original Message----- From: Paul McDonald [mailto:paul_mcdonald@AMERITECH.NET] Sent: Saturday, October 30, 1999 10:17 PM To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: ENDSAS in PC SAS

Because when you use ENDSAS on PC, you are using DISPLAY MANAGER... it ENDS SAS. When you use ENDSAS on MAINFRAME, you are submitting a BATCH job... it ENDS SAS.

Both times, it ENDS SAS. It's just that in DISPLAY MANAGER, you want your SAS SESSION to remain open (normally) upon ending a program.