Date:         Fri, 31 May 2002 14:33:35 -0400
Reply-To:     Jay Weedon <jweedon@EARTHLINK.NET>
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From:         Jay Weedon <jweedon@EARTHLINK.NET>
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Subject:      Re: SAS Win2k/V8.2, How to change the default options settings?
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On 31 May 02 15:00:43 GMT, ya.huang@PFIZER.COM (Huang, Ya) wrote:

>Good morning,
>
>I tried to change some default options settings, such as
>forchar, center to nocenter etc., this is what I did:
>go to "tools" -> "options" -> "Sytem ..." ->
>"Log and procedure output control" -> "Procedure output" ->
>modify center=1 to center=0. This only works for the
>current SAS session, once I quit SAS and start it again,
>it go back to the default settings, even though I already
>checked "Save settings on exits".

You can create a file called autoexec.sas in the same directory as
sas.exe, and just add stuff in there, e.g.,

options nocenter;

Whatever statements or command are in this file will be executed each
time SAS starts.

JW