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List:       sas-l
Subject:    Re: Executing external programs in SAS 6.12
From:       Paul McDonald <paul_mcdonald () AMERITECH ! NET>
Date:       1999-09-30 14:31:37
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I'd say you're using the wrong tool.  use the windows scheduler to run the
program instead of a sleeping SAS program.  Then when the search program
finds the file to kick off the rest of the SAS procedures, have that program
run SAS instead.

Takes up a lot less memory.

Clive Granger wrote in message <7sva5m$5m4$1@newsource.ihug.co.nz>...
>Hi,
>I have created a SAS program that regularly checks a directory for files of
>a pre-specified name, zips them and then emails them to various people.
The
>app runs on my PC, wakes up every 15 minutes, does the check then goes back
>to sleep.  Problem is that the PKZIP runs as shell command:
>x PKZIP &password &zippath &filepath;
>This causes the DOS shell window to flash up and interrupt what I am doing.
>
>What I would like to do is:
>options parm="&password &zippath &filepath";
>proc pkzip;
>
>But this fails: PROGRAM NOT FOUND.
>
>Doesn't seem to matter where I put the PKZIP.exe program (tried in D:\SAS;
>D:\SAS\CORE; also in one of the PATH directories).
>
>I looked up "accessing external dlls" in the help but this looked way too
>complicated for what I wanted to do.  I have executed programs as procs
>before in an MVS environment and had no real problems, but my PC/SAS
>experience is a bit limited.  Can anyone point me in the right direction
>please?
>Thanks,
>Clive Granger (New Zealand... not the Dr. Granger in the States)
>
>
>

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