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From: PMANERA@NYBVX1.BITNET (Peter Manera)
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Subject: VMS 4.2 vs SAS Version 5
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Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 21:17:00 EDT
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Just a quick warning for those of you who want to go to 4.2 and have SAS, too:

        D O N ' T !

At least if you want to run Version 5 of SAS, which is shipping now.  It won't
work.  Period.

SAS couldn't get a pre-release of 4.2, and there are a lot of things going
wrong.  Here's the situation as it stands:

        1.  SAS Version 4.10 will work with VMS Version 4.2 if you've
            applied the RTL patch that was the hot rage in Info-VAX a
            while back.  (The patch is DEC # MTH043 to MTH$DEXP.)

        2.  SAS Version 5.02 will run with VMS 3.X.

        3.  SAS Version 5.03 will run with VMS 4.0 to 4.1+.

        4.  SAS Version 5.04(?) will run with VMS 4.2.

I spoke with SAS today and they were, even as we spoke, recompiling SAS under
4.2.  There's a lot of heat on, and they're doing their best.  But while I'm
a great SAS advocate, I think they should have let us know that it woudn't
work.  Too much postage, I guess.  Anyway, a word to the wise...

Peter