Date:         Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:34:47 -0500
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Subject:      Re: The mystery of the SAS import wizard and the new printer
Comments: To: "Swank, Paul R" <Paul.R.Swank@uth.tmc.edu>
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Is this similar to your problem?

http://support.sas.com/kb/20/002.html

On 10/21/08, Swank, Paul R <Paul.R.Swank@uth.tmc.edu> wrote:
> Someone sent me an excel spreadsheet that they wanted me to do some
> analysis on. Fine. I import excel files into SAS all the time. Not so
> fast. It wouldn't import it. Kept giving me a libname error. One of my
> colleagues said he had had a similar problem one time when he was
> printing to a printer that was not his default. Mine was set to the
> default  printer. Just for fun, because I had recently changed my
> default printer, changed to the original default printer. Now I could
> import the file! But if I change the default printer back to the new
> printer, I can't import the file. Is this just an alpha printer that
> doesn't want to be forsaken or is there some reason for this?
>
>
>
> Paul
>
>
>
> Paul R. Swank, Ph.D
>
> Professor and Director of Research
>
> Children's Learning Institute
>
> University of Texas Health Science Center
>
> Houston, TX 77038
>
>
>