System Options under UNIX

INSERT System Option: UNIX

Used when SAS starts; inserts the specified value at the beginning of the specified system option.

Default:	none
Valid in:	configuration file, SAS invocation
PROC OPTIONS GROUP=	ENVFILES
UNIX specifics:	all

Syntax
Details
See Also

Syntax

-INSERT system-option new-option-value

system-option: can be FMTSEARCH, HELPLOC, MAPS, MSG, SASAUTOS, or SASHELP.
new-option-value: is the new value that you want to insert at the beginning of the current value of system-option.

Details

By default, if you specify the FMTSEARCH, HELPLOC, MAPS, MSG, SASAUTOS, or SASHELP system option more than one time, the last specification is the one that SAS uses. If you want to insert additional pathnames at the beginning of the search paths already specified by one of these options, you must use the INSERT system option to add the new pathname. For example, if you entered the following SAS command, the only location that SAS will look for help files is /apps/help, and the output of PROC OPTIONS will show only /apps/help:

sas -helploc /apps/help

If you want SAS to look in both the current path for help files and in /apps/help, and if you want SAS to search /apps/help first, then you must use the INSERT option:

sas -insert helploc /apps/help

If your current path for help files is !SASROOT/X11/native_help, then for the value of the HELPLOC option, PROC OPTIONS will now show:

('/apps/help' '!SASROOT/X11/native_help')