Date:         Mon, 30 Apr 2001 09:33:23 -0700
Reply-To:     "Terjeson, Mark" <TerjeMW@DSHS.WA.GOV>
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From:         "Terjeson, Mark" <TerjeMW@DSHS.WA.GOV>
Subject:      Re: Deleting a file in SAS without pop-up window
Comments: To: Rob Rohrbough <Rob@ROHRBOUGH-SYSTEMS.COM>
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Great reminder Rob!

Indeed no DOS pop-up window.


filename mycmd pipe "echo hello > c:\temp\abc.txt";
data _null_;
  infile mycmd;
run;


filename mycmd pipe "erase c:\temp\abc.txt";
data _null_;
  infile mycmd;
run;


Mark Terjeson
Washington State Department of Social and Health Services
Division of Research and Data Analysis (RDA)
mailto:terjemw@dshs.wa.gov



-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Rohrbough [mailto:Rob@ROHRBOUGH-SYSTEMS.COM]
Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2001 6:54 AM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: Deleting a file in SAS


It is possible with pipes.  Basically you define a pipe fileref for the
console output and read or ignore it as you see fit.  You may call
individual commands or call a BAT file without showing the DOS window on the
desktop.  See your SAS Companion or online docs for Windows for more
information including examples.

HTH,

Rob


> -----Original Message-----
> From: robert.a.burnham@DARTMOUTH.EDU
> [mailto:robert.a.burnham@DARTMOUTH.EDU]
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 1:10 PM
> Subject: Re: Deleting a file in SAS
>
>
> >>>>> "Stephane" == Stephane Racine
> <stephane.racine@pharma.novartis.com> writes:
>
>     Stephane> QUESTION : Is there a way to not have any command
>     Stephane> window that open to delete a text file?
>
> I've never seen a way to run a basic system command under NT from SAS
> without a window.  It is possible to write these programs under
> Win32 (e.g. think of how you have to specifically make Excel visible
> if you are connecting to it via OLE), but you need more control than
> you can get from a simple X command under SAS.
>
> Can you consolidate your multiple commands to delete single files
> into a single command to delete multiple files?  That would still
> open one window -- but not dozens.  Both NT and Unix have 'for'
> commands that can act on groups of file -- or just use a wildcard in
> your delete statment, e.g. del temp?.txt
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Bob
>
> --
> Bob Burnham
> bburnham@dartmouth.edu
> http://www.dartmouth.edu/~bburnham
>