INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR HOT FIX 81BA27 ON AIX/6000 BEFORE DOWNLOADING: The hot fix 81BA27 addresses the PROC TABULATE issue(s) in Release 8.1 (TS1M0) of Base SAS software on AIX/6000 as documented in SAS Note(s): SN-004147 EUROx format may cause abnormal termination of PROC TABULATE which may be reviewed at: http://www.sas.com/service/techsup/unotes/SN/004/004147.html The hot fix package that is downloaded is in tar format. The name of the tar file is 81ba27ar.tar, and it contains the following files: * sastabul.81ba27 the replacement executable containing the hot fix * sastabul a link to sastabul.81ba27 * 81ba27ar.aud a hot fix identifier file that will allow Technical Support to determine which fixes have been applied to a system * 81ba27ar.txt a copy of these installation instructions; this file is installed in !SASROOT/hotfix/doc IMPORTANT NOTE(S): 1. You must have Release 8.1 (TS1M0) installed on your system before applying this hot fix. AFTER DOWNLOADING: The following instructions describe the steps for installing the files listed above. In this example, the directory where Release 8.1 (TS1M0) is installed is: /usr/lib/sas8 STEP 1: Assuming the tar file is downloaded to the user's HOME directory, follow these procedures to install the package. $> cd /usr/lib/sas8 $> tar xf $HOME/81ba27ar.tar STEP 2: Once the tar command is complete, the following line must be added as the first line of the !SASROOT/sasv8.cfg file: -path !SASROOT/hotfix/sasexe STEP 3: Change the ownership (using the chown command) and permissions (using the chmod command) on the files in the !SASROOT/hotfix/sasexe directory to match the ownership and permissions on the files in the !SASROOT/sasexe directory. This completes the installation of hot fix 81BA27 on AIX/6000.