Date:         Tue, 4 Mar 2003 15:12:28 GMT
Reply-To:     Louis <louis_rene_rheault@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Louis <louis_rene_rheault@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: System options made permanents

Here are the answers I got. Thanks to Pudin' Man, Phil and Ed for the
informations. I works great!
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There are many SAS system options that can be
set at invocation, in a config file, or in an
OPTIONS statement. COMPRESS=YES is such an
option. See the Onlinedoc.

You might want to consider setting it in
AUTOEXEC.SAS if you can find such a file.

Further details depend on your OS and/or
version of SAS.
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Look in your documentation for autoexec.sas.
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If you add the options statement for compress=yes
to your autoexec.sas file, it will be executed
each time you invoke sas.
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"Louis" <louis_rene_rheault@yahoo.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
xp29a.394$Rz3.175174@charlie.risq.qc.ca...
> Hi!
>
> I'd like to change an option in the System options so that everytime I
> startup it stays the same. My example: I'd like to COMPRESS all the
datasets
> so I can free some disk space (and the performances are better too). To
> change the option, I go in the Tools menu, Options, System, SAS files and
> change the COMPRESS' NO for a YES.
>
> But when I restart SAS, I have to do it again.
>
> Thanks very much!
> Louis
>
>