Date:         Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:34:50 -0400
Reply-To:     Peter Crawford <peter1.crawford@CITIGROUP.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Peter Crawford <peter1.crawford@CITIGROUP.COM>
Subject:      Re: SAS V8 Explorer and Time Stamp Changes

alternatively,

customise the explorer behaviour on tables,
change the view properties, to gsubmit proc contents, like

gsub 'proc contents data=%8b.%32b varnum centiles; run;'; listing

A more extensive command would use proc printto to trap listing output into
a notepad type window, and capture also out= and out2=.

If viewtable causes file timestamps to be updated, switch to your own AF
app,
or use sas/fsp, like

fsview %8b.%32b ; formula
fsbrowse %8b.%32b sasuser.%8b.%32b

which adds the advantages of keeping and presenting your preferred
customisation for display........



Good Luck

Peter Crawford

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:56:42 -0400, Talbot Michael Katz <topkatz@MSN.COM>
wrote:

>Hi.
>
>This just in from Support@sas.com:
>
>***********************************************************************
>
>    Trknum: us6283515
>   Customer: Talbot Michael Katz
>
>         OS: winxp         Product: system
> OS Release:                 Topic:
>Product Rel: 8.2          Subtopic:
>    TSLevel: 2m0
>
><=== Page: 1 === SAS Consultant === emailed w/answer === 22Sep2005
>11:39:49 ===>
>
>Good Afternoon,
>
>The issue that you reported is documented in the following SAS NOTE.
>There is not a fix available for SAS release 8.2, however the issue has
>been
>corrected in SAS Release 9.1.3.
>
>http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/003/003301.html
>
>Please let me know if you have any additional questions.
>
>***********************************************************************
>
>
>So I guess that's that.  I did get an offline tip to look at the following
>two SUGI / NESUG papers for information on customizing SAS Explorer:
>
>http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi29/013-29.pdf
>http://www.nesug.org/html/Proceedings/nesug05/ap/ap6.pdf
>
>
>--  TMK  --
>"The Macro Klutz"
>
>
>On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:34:03 -0400, Talbot Michael Katz <topkatz@MSN.COM>
>wrote:
>
>>Hi.
>>
>>In the Explorer Window in SAS V8, if I right-click on a data set to view
>>its properties box, it changes the time-stamp on the file, whether I click
>>OK or Cancel to close the box.  This happens in Windows, and on a remote
>>UNIX server; it doesn't happen if I open the data set itself for viewing.
>>Is there any way I can prevent viewing the properties box from changing
>>the time-stamp?  Thanks!
>>
>>--  TMK  --
>>"The Macro Klutz"