Usage Note 1878: SHORTFILEEXT might not work as a system option and generates an error
message
If you use -SHORTFILEEXT as an option in the SAS configuration file
or as an option on the command line, the following message appears:
ERROR: Catalog sashelp.core does not exist.
Fatal: unable to initialize the options subsystem.
(sasxkini): phase 3 kernel initilization failed.
Unable to initialize SAS kernel.
The problem occurs because this option is supported as a global system
option when SAS is installed on a drive that supports short file
extensions only.
To circumvent the problem, specify the SHORTFILEEXT option in a
LIBNAME statement, as follows:
libname test "c:\test" shortfileext;
Note: The libname statement could be set in an AUTOEXEC.SAS file.
For related information, see SAS Note #002555 .
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | N/A | Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 8 | |
| Microsoft Windows 95/98 | 8 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 8 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 8 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 8 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 8 | |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 8 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 8 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 8 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 8 | |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 8 | |
| Windows Millennium Edition (Me) | 8 | |
| Windows Vista | 8 | |
*
For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed
Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be
fixed.
| Date Modified: | 2003-02-06 15:55:16 |
| Date Created: | 2000-03-23 10:25:00 |
