Date:         Tue, 3 Jan 2006 09:39:30 -0500
Reply-To:     Gerhard Hellriegel <ghellrieg@T-ONLINE.DE>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Gerhard Hellriegel <ghellrieg@T-ONLINE.DE>
Subject:      Re: Untitled

the SAS part should be easy. I assume, there is a SAS program, you want to
execute. The SAS call is like:

sas.exe -sysin c:\path_to_sys_programs\program.sas

You can pack that into a BAT-file, or whatever your OS likes as command-file
and call that from your mail-software.



On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 20:04:27 +0530, Mohit Bhatia <mohit.b.bhatia@AEXP.COM> wrote:

>ya that would be the design of this solution... but i have no clue how to
>even start writing a SAS implementation for that....
>
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>chris@OVIEW.CO.UK
>Sent by: "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>01/03/2006 03:49 PM
>Please respond to chris
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>        To:     SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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>        Subject:        Re: Untitled
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>
>Hi Mohit,
>
>The short answer is 'yes'.  I guess you'll probably want to know how to
>do it, as well, but that's very difficult to answer without knowing a
>lot more about what kind of system you're on, and various other
>details.  The best place to start looking will be your email software,
>not SAS - your email software may well have something in its filtering
>rules that will allow you to run an external program on receipt of a
>particular subject line.  Failing that, a SAS solution might involve
>locating your email 'inbox' file and writing a SAS program to scan that
>periodically...  if the email arrives in a place which is accessible
>via the POP3 protocol, you could write a SAS implementation of that....
> etc etc.
>
>Chris.
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