System Options under OpenVMS

XRESOURCES= System Option: OpenVMS

Specifies a character string of X resource options or the application instance name for the SAS interface to Motif.

Default:	none
Valid in:	configuration file, SAS invocation, VMS_SAS_OPTIONS DCL symbol
Category:	Environment control: Display
PROC OPTIONS GROUP=	ENVDISPLAY
OpenVMS specifics:	all

Syntax
Details
Example
See Also

Syntax

XRESOURCES="resource-list"

"resource-list": specifies the resource setting to be passed to SAS. The value for resource-list must be enclosed in double quotation marks.

Details

For the SAS interface to Motif, the XRESOURCES= system option enables you to pass any valid X Window System command line options as well as -xrm options to the interface. The -xrm option enables you to set any resource used by SAS. For a complete list of resource and class names used by SAS, see Summary of X Resources for SAS under OpenVMS. The first argument in the resource list can also be used to specify the application instance name.

To conform to the OpenVMS command line syntax, this option must be enclosed in double quotation marks. This enables you to preserve case, as well as to specify a compound statement. Any value that is enclosed in single quotation marks is resolved as a symbol by OpenVMS before it is processed by SAS. If no symbol exists for the specified value, unexpected results might occur.

Note: Placing single quotation marks inside double quotation marks might not create the effect you want. To preserve the case of the characters, enclose the string in double quotation marks. [cautionend]

Example

In the following example, the XRESOURCES= system option does three things:

It uses the AXPSAS argument to define this application instance name as AXPSAS. The application class is always SAS. Therefore, SAS will use any application instance resources that are prefixed with AXPSAS, as well as any application class resources that are prefixed by SAS.
It uses the -display command line option to specify that the SAS windows for the session should be displayed on node MYNODE.
It uses the -xrm option to set the AXPSAS.sessionGravity resource to the value SouthWestGravity . When the SAS windows are displayed on the node, they are positioned in the southwest region of the screen. If you want to specify more than one resource setting, you must issue a separate -xrm option.

$ SAS /XRESOURCES="AXPSAS
    -display mynode:0
    -xrm=(AXPSAS.sessionGravity: SouthWestGravity)"