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Subject: SAS
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Date: Tue, 30-Dec-86 16:32:00 EST
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     >Hi, 
     >     We just upgraded from VMS 4.2 through VMS
     >4.4 onto VMS 4.5. 
     >
     >Two problems resulted, both minor. 
     >
     >     The first is that SAS 5.03 won't run.
     >[fixable with directions] 
     >
     >                  .  .  . 
     >
     >*** SAS 5.03: 	We talked to the people out at the
     >SAS Institute. 
     >
     >They said (well approximately): 
     >
     >       "Oh, if you upgrade to VMS 4.4 or 4.5, 
     >        SAS stops working.  This is a known and 
     >        correctable problem. The instructions for
     >        telling SAS to use the VMS 4.2 run-time 
     >        libraries are in the document shipped on 
     >        May X,1986. 
     >
     >     What? You didn't get that? Oh, we'll ship
     >it out to you."
     >
     >P.S. They say SAS will not need this sort
     >of pampering in the future.
     >
     >I'm expecting the document this week, but I'm
     >wondering if there's anything else about it I
     >should know. 
     >
     >I would appreciate any reponses (to the
     >address(es) below) from anyone who has been
     >through this. 

     We have SAS at Northeastern University.  We also ran into much the
same problem.  The directions SAS gives will work.  We modified them a
little.  When you activate SAS here you realy run a command file that
does what the SAS directions say on a local user level only and then
runs SAS.  To the best of my knowledge SAS works fine except for real
SAS bugs. 


Chris Johnson
Northeastern University