These three tools have made life a lot easier for me - I have no commercial interest in any of these products, just a satisfied user:

Program: UltraEdit Platform: MS Windows Homepage: http://www.ultraedit.com Cost: $30.00 USD Purpose: UltraEdit is a disk based editor with a 16-Bit version for Windows 3.x and a 32-Bit version for Windows NT and Windows 95/98 (not Win32s). One of my favorite features is the configurable syntax highlighting. Meets all my SAS programming and other text editing needs. Built-in FTPclient permits editing of Mainframe files on PC with all editing features available!

Program: CS-RCS Platform: MS Windows Homepage: http://www.componentsoftware.com/csrcs/addons.htm Cost: free personal license for standalone PCs Purpose: CS-RCS is a Windows Front-End for RCS, a GNU public license version control system. It is easy to learn and allows restoration of previous versions of a file. Also contains a viewer for highlighting changes between versions. This is great for tracking versions of programs delivered to clients. Also works with binary files, e.g. SAS catalogs. Even integrates into UltraEdit's configurable ("Advanced") Menu.

Program: WindowsCommander Platform: MS Windows Homepage: http://www.ghisler.com Cost: 40 Swiss Francs (approx. US$ 32) including shipping&handling. Purpose: Windows Commander, Version 3.53, is a Shareware file manager for Windows® 95/98, Windows NT®, and Windows® 3.1. Features in Windows Commander 3.53 include two file windows side by side, multiple language support. It contains an internal ZIP/UNZIP which lets you use ZIP-files like directories, as far as simple file operations (copy, open, drag'ndrop) are concerned. Made WinZip obsolete for _me_ (Hi, Phil :-), but I have not yet tried the piping stuff).

Christoph Edel IMS Health, Frankfurt (Germany) CEdel@de.imshealth.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Phil Mason [SMTP:phil_mason@EMAIL.COM] > Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 1999 12:34 PM > To: SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU > Subject: Favorite programs which support work with SAS > > Just had an idea of sharing the names of my favorite programs which > support > my work with SAS. Perhaps people could contribute so that we could make a > list of useful programs which people could consider getting to make their > SAS programming life easier. > > For instance the contributions could be in the following form: > > Program: FINEPRINT > Platform: MS Windows > Homepage: http://www.singletrack.com/ > Cost: $29.95 USD > Purpose: allows printing up to 8 pages on a single page while still > legible. > Excellent for long SAS code printouts and much more. > > Program: WINZIP > Platform: MS Windows > Homepage: http://www.winzip.com/ > Cost: $29 USD > Purpose: Compress & Decompress any files (e.g. data, SAS code) thus saving > space. Excellent for backups or transfering large files. Can even read > zipped data direct from SAS using pipes and PKUNZIP. > > > > Does anyone have any other favorites?