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I am working on a research project which involves a simulation study in which MATLAB calls SAS using the DOS command, passing a script to run, as in:<br />
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&quot;c:\sas\SAS 9.1\sas.exe&quot; &quot;C:\Documents and Settings\User\Desktop\nea\<wbr />sasscript.<wbr />sas&quot;,<br />
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the final result of the script is several output files in the same directory. &nbsp;My SAS script runs perfectly fine when I open and run it by hand. &nbsp;However, when run via the command line, the output files are not created. &nbsp;There are no errors in the log file created by SAS. &nbsp;Using MATLAB is not the problem; I can even just run the above from the command line directly, and get the same behavior.<br />
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I know I have solved this before, but that was 3 years ago on different computer, and I can't find that I documented it (didn't have evernote then :-(). &nbsp;I have attached a sample script file.<br />
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Anyone have any ideas?<br />
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Andrew<br />
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sample.sas

I am working on a research project which involves a simulation study in which MATLAB calls SAS using the DOS command, passing a script to run, as in:

"c:\sas\SAS 9.1\sas.exe" "C:\Documents and Settings\User\Desktop\nea\sasscript.sas",

the final result of the script is several output files in the same directory.  My SAS script runs perfectly fine when I open and run it by hand.  However, when run via the command line, the output files are not created.  There are no errors in the log file created by SAS.  Using MATLAB is not the problem; I can even just run the above from the command line directly, and get the same behavior.

I know I have solved this before, but that was 3 years ago on different computer, and I can't find that I documented it (didn't have evernote then :-().  I have attached a sample script file.

Anyone have any ideas?

Andrew

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