Date:         Wed, 2 May 2001 14:41:56 -0700
Reply-To:     "Smith, Curtis, Mr, DCAA" <Curtis.Smith@DCAA.MIL>
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From:         "Smith, Curtis, Mr, DCAA" <Curtis.Smith@DCAA.MIL>
Subject:      Re: Obsolete SAS statements and options
Comments: To: "Brittain, James" <zqr0@CDC.GOV>
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It would seem that DELETE was eaten by DATASETS, but why wasn't COPY,
APPEND, and CONTENTS also eaten?

-----Original Message-----
From: Brittain, James [mailto:zqr0@CDC.GOV]
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 2:21 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: Obsolete SAS statements and options


I think Proc DELETE actually got eaten up by the "ALL POWERFUL PROC
DATASETS".

i.e..
proc datasets library=work
              memtype=data ;
  delete foo ;
quit ;

-----Original Message-----
From: Neal K Nair [mailto:nnair@ACF.DHHS.GOV]
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 1:05 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: Obsolete SAS statements and options


Ian:

I ran a PROC CONTENTS in Version 8 of SAS with the following statement:

proc contents data=mydatasetname POSITION; run;

The result I got were:  1) Alphabetic list of variables and attributes
                                           2)  Variables ordered by position
(with all the attributes)
From the result I got, I assumed that the option POSITION is still in
effect.  But the version 8 manual does not inlcude that option.  Am I wrong?

In this context let me mention another issue.  In the manuals for V6 and V8,
no
PROC DELETE  for deleting data sets created in a SAS session is mentioned .
But a colleague of mine successfully used PROC DELETE to do just that.  I
suppose it is a remnant of version 5.  I recall a SAS official in a meeting
(to introduce SAS v7) said as a rule SAS does not eliminate its features but
only add to them.

I would appreciate any comments you have on the above.  Thanks.

Neal