Introducing the SAS Environment

Review of SAS Tools

DMS | NODMS: at invocation, specifies whether the SAS Programming windows are to be active in a SAS session.
LINESIZE=n: specifies the line width for SAS output.
VERBOSE: at invocation, displays a listing of all options in the configuration file and on the command line.

DATALINES;: signals to SAS that the data follows immediately.
ENDSAS: causes a SAS job or session to terminate at the end of the current DATA or PROC step.
OPTIONS option;: changes one or more system options from the default value set at a site.
RUN: causes the previously entered SAS step to be executed.
X 'operating-environment-command';: is used to issue an operating environment command from within a SAS session. Operating-environment-command specifies the command. Omitting the command puts you into the operating environment's submode.

BYE: ends a SAS session.
ENDSAS: ends a SAS session.
EXPLORER: invokes the Explorer window.
PMENU: turns on drop-down menus in windows.
X <'operating-environment-command'>: executes the operating environment command and then prompts you to take the appropriate action to return to SAS. Omitting the command puts you into the operating environment's submode.