Problem Note 2456: "ERROR: You must specify a letter name for SEND or PRINT mode"
If you specify a 3-level entry name for the first argument of the CALL
LETTER routine in SAS Component Language (SCL) and use an open-mode of
either PRINT or SEND such as in the following statement,
call letter('mylib.mycat.myltr','print','my.data');
you may receive the following error message,
[ERROR: #270] Calling function LETTER. ERROR: You must specify
a letter name with SEND or PRINT mode.
To circumvent the problem, specify a 4-level entry name instead. For
example,
call letter('mylib.mycat.myltr.letter','print','my.data');
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Reported Release | Fixed Release* |
| SAS System | SAS/FSP | Microsoft Windows 95/98 | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| OpenVMS VAX | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| Solaris | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| ABI+ for Intel Architecture | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| z/OS | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| OS/2 | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| IRIX | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| HP-UX | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| OpenVMS Alpha | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| CMS | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| Tru64 UNIX | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| AIX | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
*
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.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | medium |
| Date Modified: | 2000-07-03 17:01:51 |
| Date Created: | 2000-04-18 12:42:31 |
