Date:         Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:57:41 -0400
Reply-To:     Wensui Liu <liuwensui@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Wensui Liu <liuwensui@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: read-only macro code
Comments: To: "jlee8071@gmail.com" <jlee8071@gmail.com>
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Hi, Lee,
if you just want to distribute the macro and don't want others to
change it, you can compile your macro into a catalog file and
distribute the catalog file instead of code.

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:08 PM, jlee8071@gmail.com <jlee8071@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear SAS users,
>
> I have written a long macro program that I want to distribute to other
> people for general use.
>
> Is there a way to protect my macro code from being copied or edited?
> perhaps as a read-only file but one that cannot be converted back to
> normal file subjected to copying/editing.
>
> I still want the macro to run of course.  Thank you so much for the
> help.
>
> chris
>



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