This is also established by one of the Microsoft Power Toys: Open Command Prompt Here

This can be downloaded at: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

In the same way you can define a "SAS here" that would open the SAS System at a specific folder. See: http://xrl.us/r4g5

This gives an old example for SASv8, but can easily be extended to SASv9.

Lex Jansen

On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 09:56:15 -0700, Choate, Paul@DDS <pchoate@DDS.CA.GOV> wrote:

>Handy Command Line tweak for Windows - from Sid Steward at O'Reilly > >Command prompts aren’t well suited for quickly navigating large, complex file systems. Let’s configure the Windows File Explorer to open a command prompt in the working directory we select... > >(Be sure to add this new action to the Folder file type, not the File Folder file type.) > >1. In the Windows File Explorer menu, select Tools => Folder Options and click the File Types tab. Select the Folder file type and click the Advanced button. > >2. Click the New button and a New Action dialog appears. Give the new action the name Command. > >3. Give the action an application to open by clicking the Browse... button and selecting cmd.exe, which lives somewhere such as C:\windows\system32\, or C:\winnt\system32\. > >4. Add these arguments after cmd.exe like so: >C:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /K cd "%1" > >5. Click OK, OK, OK and you are done. > >In Windows Explorer a right click on a folder will show the Command option, select and the command prompt is opened at the folder. > >Paul Choate >DDS Data Extraction >(916) 654-2160