Date:         Tue, 14 Dec 1999 10:47:26 -0800
Reply-To:     Robert Virgile <virgile@MEDIAONE.NET>
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From:         Robert Virgile <virgile@MEDIAONE.NET>
Subject:      Re: RE(ason for): Ordering variables in data step
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By my recollection, it was a Version 5 bug:  the BY variables for
sorting had to appear in the first (approximately) thousand bytes of the
observation.

Bob V.