Date:         Sat, 1 May 2010 06:20:33 -0400
Reply-To:     Scott Bass <sas_l_739@YAHOO.COM.AU>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Scott Bass <sas_l_739@YAHOO.COM.AU>
Subject:      ODS Question: create RTF file but suppress results window

Hi,

I'm running the below code under Windows XP, SAS 9.1.3, DMS:

%let summary_report  = C:\Temp\RunAsync.rtf;
filename summrpt "&summary_report";
%let rc=%sysfunc(fdelete(summrpt));  * delete any previous files ;

ods _all_ close;
ods rtf (id=summrpt) file=summrpt;

proc report data=status nowd;
   column program return_code results;
   define program       / display   "Program Name";
   define return_code   / display   "Return Code";
   define results       / display   "Results";
run;

ods _all_ close;
ods listing;

* display batch run summary report (Windows only) ;
* use either Wordpad (write) or default RTF application (usually MS Word) ;
* systask command "write ""%sysfunc(pathname(summrpt))"" " nowait;
systask command " ""%sysfunc(pathname(summrpt))"" " nowait;

Whenever it runs, I get a dialog window from SAS to Open/Save/Cancel.  This
is due to SAS trying to display the output in the Results window using MS Word.

How can I suppress the attempt to display the file in the Results window?  I
want to explicitly display the file using either Wordpad or MS Word.  Also,
I may run the code in non-interactive (batch) mode with -nodms.

Thanks,
Scott