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SAS on Athena upgraded to release 7.00
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Wed Jun 23 11:36:19 1999
To: sasug@MIT.EDU, software-announce@MIT.EDU
Cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, facdev@MIT.EDU, cfyi@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 11:35:06 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
The SAS statistics package on Athena has been upgraded to release 7.00
and we expect to make it the Athena default version later this Summer,
in about 4 weeks from the date of this message (we will keep the older
6.12 release around for at least the Fall, 1999 semester). To run it
now, do:
add sas
sas -ver 7.00 &
at the Athena prompt. This is a major update with many new features
and enhancements. Among the enhancements is much improved and extensive
online documentation, including both help and online manuals, in html
and pdf formats. You will need to have both Javascript and Java enabled
in Netscape for this to work properly (they are both on by default).
A good starting point for new feature information is:
Help -> Books and Training -> SAS OnlineDoc -> What's New for Version 7?
The SAS Institute also has information about new features
on their Web site, starting at http://www.sas.com/service/doc/v7/whatsnew/
You should expect datasets to be forward but not backward compatible.
The user's local SAS configuration directory is named sasuser.701 in
this release (by intent of the vendor). You should not mix files
created there with files in the release 6.12 sasuser directory.
Please send questions/comments to 3partysw@mit.edu.
Alex
