Using the SAS System Release 6.12 on Windows
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Using the SAS® System Release 6.12 on WindowsTM Gary Mehler, SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC ABSTRACT This paper provides an overview of the new Release 6.12 enhancements. You should Release 6.12 of the SAS System for Per- view this paper as an introduction but you sonal Computers provides support for Mi- should refer to the SAS Companion for the crosoft Windows (version 3.1 using Win32s Microsoft Windows Environment and the technology, Windows 95, Windows NT), and OS/2 Environment: Changes and Enhance- OS/2® (Warp). With this release, the SAS ments of the SAS System for more details System incrementally improves both its user as well as online documentation, which is interface and its interoperability with other more extensive in Release 6.12. Release PC applications. This paper discusses both 6.12 continues to provide incremental en- new features and incremental enhance- hancements to the user interface and ments to the user interface. This paper also interoperability areas of the SAS System. In describes the SAS System for Windows 95 other areas such as the SAS System Viewer and Windows NT 4.0, detailing the new user and the SETUP application, new features interface features that are consistent with have also been added. the look and feel for Windows 95 and Win- dows NT 4.0. The SAS System Viewer, pro- duction for 6.12, is described as is the GUI- THE SAS SYSTEM VIEWER based SETUP program. Interoperability topics include Windows Explorer integration, The SAS System Viewer is a electronic mail, Lotus Notes, OLE, OBDC, freely redistributable application and access to external DLLs. This paper for viewing and printing files that also discusses the support provided by the were created by the SAS System. SAS System for Windows NT. The Viewer provides a quick and convenient way to view the contents of a SAS data set or catalog without invoking the entire SAS INTRODUCTION System, or even having the SAS System installed on your computer. Release 6.12 of the SAS System under Windows and under OS/2 is a complete im- When you install the SAS System Viewer plementation of the SAS System. This re- under Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0, the lease takes advantage of the 32-bit per- Setup procedure automatically updates the formance of the operating system. For ex- Windows registry to associate the Viewer ample, the following operating system im- program with SAS data set files (.SD2), provements over 16-bit environments will catalog files (.SC2), and other files (.SAS, positively affect your SAS programs: .LOG, .LST) associated with the SAS Sys- tem. When you click on the right-mouse - the 32-bit operating system enables button from an Explorer view of one of your SAS programs to execute faster these files, you can select SASView to - the improved fault isolation capabilities launch the SAS System Viewer ensure that if another application fails, your SAS session is not affected The SAS System Viewer lets you view the - the additional resources reduce re- following types of SAS files: source contention, so your SAS pro- • grams execute more efficiently SAS data sets (.sd2 and .ssd files), up to two gigabytes in size, generated by Release - the redesigned interface in Windows 95 6.04 and later of the SAS System for Win- and Windows NT makes SAS easier to dows, OS/2, or DOS. These data sets can use. be compressed and/or encrypted. (If you attempt to access an encrypted data set, tures as well. Using the SAS System the SAS System Viewer prompts you for the Viewer you can: read password.) • View SAS data sets and SAS catalogs in a • SAS catalogs (.sc2 files) generated by the grid format. You can view SAS files that SAS System for Windows or OS/2. have been created using the SAS System Release 6.04 or later. You can also view • SAS programs (.sas files), output listings SAS files created by versions of the SAS (.lst files), logs (.log files), text files (.txt System that run on other platforms. files), and RTF files (.rtf files). • View a SAS data set or catalog by dragging • Files created by SAS Institute's JMP product and dropping its icon on an icon represent- (.jmp files) that reside on a local or network ing the SAS System Viewer, or on an exist- disk. ing instance of the Viewer. • If you have the SAS System for Windows • View and edit SAS programs, text files, LST installed with SAS/CONNECT, you can also files, LOG files, and RTF files. view cross-platform data sets and catalogs (VMS, Macintosh, UNIX, OS/2, Windows, • Print the contents of any SAS file that you and DOS) that you can access from a disk, can view. file server, or network using the HTTP and FTP network protocols. • View multiple SAS files within a single in- stance of the Viewer. • Sort your view of a SAS file by column by selecting a cell in a column and then se- lecting a sort option from the View menu. • Subset the data (using a WHERE clause) displayed by the viewer by selecting Where from the View menu (or pressing Ctrl-W). • Email a copy of all or selected grid cells using a MAPI-compliant mail program by selecting Send from the File menu. • Resize columns and rows by grabbing and dragging the separator between the head- ers. • Copy the entire table, column, row and block selections to the clipboard. Figure 1. The SAS System Viewer, displaying the The SAS System Viewer is shipped with the contents of three SAS System files: a catalog, a SAS SAS System. You can always download the program, and a dataset. latest version of the SAS System Viewer from SAS Institute's World Wide Web site The SAS System Viewer is primarily a or FTP site on the internet: “Quick Viewer” like those provided by other WWW: http://www.sas.com software vendors to support browsing of program files. A Quick Viewer does not re- The SAS System Viewer is also available in quire the entire software application and as the download section of the Technical Sup- the name implies, can be used more quickly port area at: than the complete application. The SAS FTP: ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/ System Viewer supports many other fea- bar, and the status line. The tooltips are dis- IMPROVED GUI FEATURES played as you move your mouse cursor over these controls. Tooltips are additional de- GUI enhancements to the Release 6.12 tailed help that is displayed on the status SAS System continue the trend to provide a line. The Tool Editor allows you to modify more native look and feel familiar to PC us- tooltip text as you modify your default tool ers. Some of the new GUI features include settings. a print preview utility, rich text support, addi- tional toolbar support, Program Editor en- Program Editor Enhancements hancements, and Windows 95 support. You can use the mouse (or the SHIFT key in combination with the cursor movement Print Preview keys) to select text. The marking of an area To see how the contents of a window will of text continues until you release the appear as printed output, select the window mouse button or press a key that is not a you want to preview and then select Print cursor movement key (or release the SHIFT Preview from the File menu (or click the key). To select all of the text in the active Print Preview tool bar button). window, choose Select All from the Edit menu. Here are some advanced text selec- In the Preview window, you can use the tion methods (new for Release 6.12): Next and Previous buttons to navigate through the pages to be printed. The current - Double-click on a single word to select page number and total number of pages are it. To select an entire line, hold down displayed at the bottom of the window. You the CTRL key as you double-click on can also magnify your view of the current the line you want. page (by 100%) by clicking Zoom, or by simply clicking inside of the page. To re- - Use the ALT key as you hold down the duce your view, click Zoom or inside of the mouse button and drag the mouse to page again. select a rectangular block (or column) of text. In the Print Preview window, you can navi- gate by using the following shortcut keys: - Use the SHIFT key in combination with the mouse button to select the text Key Full Page mode action Zoom mode action between the current text cursor and the PgDn Advance to next page Scroll down on current page position in the text where you click. PgUp Back to previous page Scroll up on current page (You can use this feature only within Ctrl-PgDn none Scroll right on current page the current page.) Ctrl-PgUp none Scroll left on current page Ctrl-Home Go to first page Go to first page - If characters are marked and you start Ctrl-End Go to last page Go to last page typing text, the marked area is replaced with the new text. This occurs even if A new command, DLGPRTPREVIEW, can you have moved the cursor away from be used to invoke the Print Preview window the marked area. See Using the Clip- board for information about marking Toolbar support and copying text with a mouse. The SAS System uses industry standard tools on the default toolbar. The Tool Editor Rich Text Format Support browser contains more tools for you to Beginning with Release 6.11 for Windows, choose from when you create custom tool- two new TrueType fixed pitch fonts are pro- bars.