on Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 04:36:13PM -0600, Gordon Still (gstill@SGI.SK.CA) wrote: > I am running SAS 6.12 on an AIX machine (Version 4.3) and get the following error when the dataset being created gets to 1.07 gigabytes. > > >From the SAS log file: > > ERROR: Insufficient space in file LIBNAME.DATASET_NAME.DATA.^MERROR: > Insufficient space in file LIBNAME.DATASET_NAME.DATA.^MERROR: > Insufficient space in file LIBNAME.DATASET_NAME.DATA. > ERROR: Write to LIBNAME.DATASET_NAME.DATA failed. File is full and may > be damaged.^MERROR: Write to LIBNAME.DATASET_NAME.DATA failed. File is > full and may be damaged.^MERROR: Write to LIBNAME.DATASET_NAME.DATA > failed. File is full and may be damaged. > > Is this a system problem or a SAS problem? The operating system file size is set to unlimited. > > Your thoughts or comments greatly appreciated.

set 'options noovp' to avoid getting tripled error messages.

Why is SI still shipping with a line-printer default setting more than a decade after the proliferation of laserprinters? 'ovp' is an attempt to bold output text by typing over it three times.

Oh, and you'll need more disk space.

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