Working in the SAS Windowing Environment

Changing Your Current Working Directory under OpenVMS

The working directory is the operating system directory where you invoke SAS. By default, SAS uses the current directory as the working directory when you begin your SAS session.

Changing Your Working Directory

You can change the current working directory during your SAS session. You can use the Change Working Directory dialog box to select a new directory, or you can use the X command, the X statement, the CALL SYSTEM routine, or the %SYSEXEC macro statement to issue the change directory (set default ) command.

Change Working Directory Dialog Box

To open this dialog box, complete one of the following steps:

Issue the DLGCDIR command in the command window.
Select Tools Options Change Directory in the active window.

The Change Working Directory Dialog Box

[Change Working Directory Dialog Box]

The Change Working Directory dialog box works exactly the same as the Open dialog box, except that you can select only a directory (not a file) from the list. For an explanation of the options in the Change Working Directory dialog box, see Description of the Open Dialog Box Options.

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