Date:         Thu, 3 Jul 2008 11:35:45 -0400
Reply-To:     "Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCPHI)" <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
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From:         "Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCPHI)" <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
Subject:      Re: Suppressing Log File
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> From: SAS-L Anonymous
> Dear All:
>   I am running a SAS Macro.  The OS is XP Pro.
>   It is a long run and the log file gets full.  Is there a
> way to suppress
> SAS writing to the log file?  Or is there a way to clear the log file
> automatically once it is full?
>               Randy

eh, turn off all your macro statements generating options

options nomprint nomacrogen nosymbolgen;
etc.

by the way all those no-* options were the defaults

you are not, by chance, running a test in production mode?

you really do not want to do this:
options nonotes nosource nosource2;

but, rest assured when SAS decides to write an error message
it ignores all those options and writes it to the log anyway.

You load   the cannon,
you aid    the cannon at your foot
you ooops! the cannon

then your task is:
"Ah, which step generated this error?!"

better: deconstruct your program into modules and run each in batch

Ron Fehd  the previously too clever at generating small logs programmer
           or macro maven  CDC Atlanta GA USA RJF2 at cdc dot gov