INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR HOT FIX 82BB97 ON OPENVMS ALPHA BEFORE DOWNLOADING: The hot fix 82BB97 addresses the issue(s) in Release 8.2 (TS2M0) of Base SAS software on OpenVMS Alpha as documented in SAS Note(s): SN-004574 Spanned headers in PROC REPORT may cause incorrect cellwidth when using ODS SN-004501 PROC TABULATE repeats statistics in all ODS destinations except listing and output data sets SN-005950 ODS PDF does not render Latin1 (ISO 8859-1) encoding correctly SN-005951 ODS PDF and RTF can not produce double-byte encoded output SN-005949 ODS PDF will only use Times, Helvetica, and Courier as default font SN-005596 Output data set may not be generated when using the ODS OUTPUT statement SN-009281 The OVERPRINT system option does not work correctly with the ODS PRINTER and PDF destinations SN-010318 User-defined format can not be updated when applied to a variable created with ODS OUTPUT SN-010411 Customized template may cause observations to not appear in ODS PRINTER output SN-005994 Using a PREIMAGE= specification and STARTPAGE= with ODS PRINTER causes errors SN-009366 ODS PRINTER does not close registry keys properly SN-012168 Gaining file compression with ODS PDF in SAS 8.2 SN-005481 "File is damaged but is being repaired" message when opening PDF files created by ODS SN-005486 PDF output generated with ODS and the DATA step may have columns with incorrect alignment SN-012125 Setting CONTENTS= to null using ODS PDF generates errors SN-005089 Recursive node generated in PDF table of contents when DESCRIPTION= or CONTENTS= options set to null SN-006634 Errors generated when multiple styles applied to ODS PDF output SN-011001 Viewing PDF files with Adobe Reader 6.0 may display strange characters SN-012660 Creating links to other pages from within a PDF file created by ODS SN-006928 Page breaks suppressed using a null TITLE statement and NONUMBER and NODATE options which may be reviewed at: http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/004/004574.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/004/004501.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/005/005950.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/005/005951.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/005/005949.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/005/005596.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/009/009281.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/010/010318.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/010/010411.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/005/005994.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/009/009366.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/012/012168.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/005/005481.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/005/005486.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/012/012125.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/005/005089.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/006/006634.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/011/011001.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/012/012660.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/006/006928.html The hot fix package downloaded is in zip format. The name of the zip file is 82bb97av.zip, and it contains the following files: * sasmrk.exe the replacement executable containing the hot fix * sashtm.exe the replacement executable containing the hot fix * sasxml.exe the replacement executable containing the hot fix * sasrtf.exe the replacement executable containing the hot fix * saspso.exe the replacement executable containing the hot fix * sasdat.exe the replacement executable containing the hot fix * saspdpcl .exe the replacement executable containing the hot fix * saspdpdf .exe the replacement executable containing the hot fix * saspdpsl .exe the replacement executable containing the hot fix * sasxug .exe the replacement executable containing the hot fix * 82bb97av.aud a hot fix identifier file that will allow Technical Support to determine which fixes have been applied to a system * 82bb97av.txt a copy of these installation instructions; this file is installed in SAS$ROOT:[TOOLS.SUPPORT.HOTFIX] 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. 3. All currently active SAS sessions, daemons, spawners and servers must be terminated before applying this hot fix. 4. Define Release 8.2 SAS System logicals to your process by executing the following command file: $ @disk:[SAS82.TOOLS]SAS82.COM where disk is the device where Release 8.2 (TS2M0) of the SAS System is installed. 5. If you do not have the UNZIP utility installed on your system, please download this program from the "SAS System under OpenVMS" link on this page: http://www.sas.com/service/techsup/ftp/download.html The name of the utility is UNZIPAV.EXE. Copy this file to the directory SAS$ROOT:[TOOLS.SUPPORT]. Create this directory if it is not present. Once installed, create a symbol pointing to the UNZIP utility: $ UNZIP :== "$SAS$ROOT:[TOOLS.SUPPORT]UNZIPAV.EXE" AFTER DOWNLOADING: The following instructions describe the steps for installing the files listed above. STEP 1: Create a directory named HOTFIX under SAS$ROOT:[TOOLS.SUPPORT] $ CREATE/DIR SAS$ROOT:[TOOLS.SUPPORT.HOTFIX] STEP 2: Copy the file downloaded, 82BB97AV.ZIP, to the HOTFIX directory created in STEP 1. Assuming the file was downloaded to a user's directory called disk1:[dir], execute $ COPY disk1:[dir]82BB97AV.ZIP SAS$ROOT:[TOOLS.SUPPORT.HOTFIX] STEP 3: Change your default directory to the SAS$ROOT directory. $ SET DEFAULT SAS$ROOT:[000000] STEP 4: Extract the contents from the downloaded zip file. $ UNZIP -o "-X" "SAS$ROOT:[TOOLS.SUPPORT.HOTFIX]82BB97AV.ZIP" The "-X" parameter must be in uppercase for this command to work properly. This completes the installation of hot fix 82BB97 on OpenVMS Alpha.