MAPS System Option: UNIX

Specifies the name of the SAS library containing the SAS/GRAPH map data sets.
Valid in: configuration file, SAS invocation, OPTIONS statement, SAS System Options window, SASV9_OPTIONS environment variable
Category: Graphics: Driver settings
PROC OPTIONS GROUP= GRAPHICS
Default: !SASROOT/maps (set in the installed !SASROOT/sasv9.cfg file)
UNIX specifics: default value and location-of-maps
See: MAPS= System Option in SAS System Options: Reference
Syntax
Details
The Basics
Inserting and Appending Pathnames
See Also

Syntax

-MAPS location-of-maps
MAPS=location-of-maps

Required Argument

location-of-maps
specifies a libref, a valid UNIX pathname, or an environment variable associated with a pathname. Do not use a specific filename.

Details

The Basics

You can reassign the MAPS libref, but you cannot clear it.
Map files might have to be uncompressed before they are used. Use the CONTENTS statement in the DATASETS procedure to determine whether they are compressed.

Inserting and Appending Pathnames

By default, if you specify the MAPS system option more than one time, the last option that is specified is the option value that SAS uses.
If you want to add additional pathnames to the pathnames already specified by the MAPS system option, use the INSERT system option to add the additional pathnames. For example, if you enter the following SAS command, the only location in which SAS looks for help files is /apps/help. The output of PROC OPTIONS shows only /apps/help. 
sas -helploc /apps/help
If you want SAS to look in both the current path for help files, and in /sas/help, and if you want SAS to look first in /apps/help, then you must use the INSERT option. 
sas -insert helploc /apps/help
If you want SAS to look first in /sas/help, and then in /apps/help, then you must use the APPEND option.
sas -helploc /sas/help -append helploc /apps/help
If the current path for help files is !SASROOT/X11/native_help, then PROC OPTIONS now shows the following for the value of the HELPLOC option: 
('/apps/help' '!SASROOT/X11/native_help')

See Also

System Options:
INSERT= System Option in SAS System Options: Reference
APPEND= System Option in SAS System Options: Reference
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