Thanks Simcha.  Like you, I had already tried the fixes listed in the link below.  Either I failed to correctly apply fixes, or the fix is not there.  When I searched SAS-L archives I found references to this exact problem pertaining to Explorer 5.5, including references to this tech note, but I never found any indication that anybody had actually figured out how to solve the problem.  I've also received e-mails from other SAS OnLine users indicating a shared problem and requesting that I make any discovered solution known to them.  I suspect there may be many of us.  If you already have a ticket open with the SAS Tech folks, please let us know if they produce a cure (any you might want to insure that they are made aware that their tech note does not seem to be addressing the issue).  In the mean time - has anybody solved this one?

 

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From: Pollack, Simcha [mailto:SPollack@Winthrop.org]
Sent:
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To: 'millerj@WSIPP.WA.GOV'
Subject: SAS OnLine Error = Search Error: Java.Lang.NullPointerException

 

I. too, always get this error. It began 3 weeks ago with an upgrade in Internet Explorer.  SAS is helping me track it down but with no success yet.

They sent me this link: ftp://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/technote/ts657.html

Please let me know your progress.

 

Date:    Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:43:03 -0700
From:    "Miller, John" <millerj@WSIPP.WA.GOV>
Subject: SAS OnLine Error = Search Error: Java.Lang.NullPointerException

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We have SAS OnLine loaded on our network and when we perform a search we get
no matches, regardless of the search item, and we see the error "Search
Error: Java.Lang.NullPointerException" at the bottom of the search window
frame.  We are operating on an NT server, with Windows 2000 workstations,
using MSExplorer version 6.0.2600.0000.

 

Thanks for the help.