When remote submitting a long commented line via SAS/CONNECT^®, the following error message may occur:

   ERROR: Read Access Violation In Task ( CONNECT )

   Exception occurred at (67866B52)
   Task Traceback
   Address   Frame     (DBGHELP API Version 4.0 rev 5)
   67866B52  044EF418  0001:00005B52 sasxshel.dll
   67864E38  044EF5C4  0001:00003E38 sasxshel.dll

   ERROR: Generic critical error.

To circumvent the problem, shorten the line that is being commented out until the problem does not occur anymore.

There is not an exact character limit that the commented line should be reduced to.

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Operating System and Release Information

A fix for SAS 9.1.3 (9.1 TS1M3) for this issue is available at:

A fix for SAS 9.1.3 (9.1 TS1M3) with Asian Language Support (DBCS) for this issue is available at :