INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR HOT FIX 81BA04 ON WINDOWS BEFORE DOWNLOADING: The hot fix 81BA04 addresses the REMOTE ENGINE issues in Release 8.1 (TS1M0) of Base SAS software on Windows as documented in SAS Note(s): SN-003461 Possible data set corruption using Release 8.1 REMOTE engine with SAS/SHARE or SAS/CONNECT Remote Library Services (RLS) SN-003537 New observation in FSVIEW may be duplicated with SAS/SHARE and a WHERE clause You may review these SAS Notes at: http://www.sas.com/service/techsup/unotes/SN/003/003461.html http://www.sas.com/service/techsup/unotes/SN/003/003537.html IMPORTANT NOTES: 1. You must have Release 8.1 (TS1M0) installed on your system before applying this hot fix. AFTER DOWNLOADING: The hot fix package downloaded is a self extracting executable named 81ba04wn.exe. Launching the executable will initiate the install wizard, which will guide you through the setup process. The following files will be installed: * sasiormt the replacement executable containing the hot fix * 81ba04wn.aud a hot fix identifier file that will allow Technical Support to determine which fixes have been applied to a system * 81ba04wn.txt a copy of these installation instructions; this file is installed in !SASROOT\core\sasinst\hotfix This completes the installation of hot fix 81BA04 on Windows.