INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR HOT FIX 82BC27 ON WINDOWS


BEFORE DOWNLOADING:


The hot fix 82BC27 addresses the issue(s) in Release 8.2 (TS2M0) 
of Base SAS software on Windows as documented in SAS Note(s):  

      SN-004336 ERROR: Missing numeric suffix on numbered variable
                list     
      SN-008830 LVARLEVEL and SORTLIST functions may not clear memory
                correctly     
      SN-011715 webEIS fails when accessing an MDDB containing THAI
                data and labels     
      SN-012368 _CHANGEMETHOD calls in SAS/AF applications may generate
                memory leak     
      SN-010505 May receive Write Access violation when SYSTEM function
                executes CD command   
      SN-013657 VIEWTABLE window may be slow to close after creating
                WHERE subset with "Lookup distinct values"   
      SN-014134 Slow performance with FWRITE function in SAS Component
                Language     
      SN-015187 Current token length warning when remote submitting
                long SAS statement from SCL program   

which may be reviewed at:

      http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/004/004336.html
      http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/008/008830.html
      http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/011/011715.html
      http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/012/012368.html
      http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/010/010505.html
      http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/013/013657.html
      http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/014/014134.html
      http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/015/015187.html


IMPORTANT NOTE(S):

1.  You must have Release 8.2 (TS2M0) installed on your system before 
    applying this hot fix.

2.  You must have Administrator Privileges on your CLIENT or SERVER machine
    and all currently active SAS sessions, daemons, spawners and servers
    must be terminated before applying this hot fix.


AFTER DOWNLOADING:

The hot fix package downloaded is a self extracting executable named 
82bc27wn.exe.  Launching the executable will initiate the install wizard, 
which will guide you through the setup process.  The following files will
be installed:

      * saspcc.dll
             the replacement module containing the hot fix

      * saspls.dll
             the replacement module containing the hot fix

      * sasp11.dll
             the replacement module containing the hot fix

      * sasp01.dll
             the replacement module containing the hot fix

      * sasp16.dll
             the replacement module containing the hot fix

      * saspos.dll
             the replacement module containing the hot fix

      * sasp09.dll
             the replacement module containing the hot fix

      * 82bc27wn.aud
             a hot fix identifier file that will allow Technical Support
             to determine which fixes have been applied to a system

      * 82bc27wn.txt
             a copy of these installation instructions; this file is installed
             in !SASROOT\core\sasinst\hotfix 



This completes the installation of hot fix 82BC27 on Windows.