George, The true page number may not be available. The "working" page number which is printed on output is available as the value of the PAGENO option. I maintain a job which creates diagnostic reports, then sets PAGENO to 1 before printing the distribution reports--this has reduced the number of calls from people who thought their copy was missing the first few pages.

If you have a sufficiently modern version of SAS, you can read the value of PAGENO from SASHELP.VOPTION (or is it SASHELP.VOPTIONS?).

Tim Berryhill - Contract Programmer and General Wizard TWB2@PGE.COM Frequently at Pacific Gas & Electric Co., San Francisco The correlation coefficient between their views and my postings is slightly less than 0 ----------------------[Reply - Original Message]---------------------- Sent by:George Kozak <gsk5@CORNELL.EDU> I am assuming that SAS maintains the true page count in a global variable (some kind of automatic variable). I know that it is not _PAGE_ and none of the documentation that I have nor any of the SAS guru's at my site could tell me what the name of this variable is. Does anyone know?