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SAS System Options under Windows

NEWS System Option: Windows



Specifies a file that contains messages to be written to the SAS log.
Default: none
Valid in: configuration file, SAS invocation
Category: Environment control: Files
PROC OPTIONS GROUP= ENVFILES
Windows specifics: Valid values for file-specification
See: NEWS System Option in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary

Syntax
Details

Syntax

-NEWS file-specification

file-specification

specifies an external file. The value for file-specification can be a valid Windows pathname or shortcut name. If the pathname contains spaces, you must enclose the pathname in quotation marks.


Details

The NEWS file can contain information for users, including news items about SAS. The contents of the NEWS file are displayed in the SAS log immediately after the SAS header.

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