INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR HOT FIX 82ST14 ON SOLARIS BEFORE DOWNLOADING: The hot fix 82ST14 addresses the issue(s) in Release 8.2 (TS2M0) of SAS/STAT software on Solaris as documented in SAS Note(s): SN-005594 NLIN may give Error: Could not compute the change vector and fail to converge SN-005692 PROC NLIN may give a Floating Point Zero Divide error with a BOUNDS SN-006607 PROC NLIN may terminate abnormally if ARRAY variables begin with "der" SN-006626 Invalid Operation error possible with BOUNDS and OUTPUT statements in PROC NLIN SN-008501 NLIN may terminate with a Floating Point Overflow when a weight is used which may be reviewed at: http://www.sas.com/service/techsup/unotes/SN/005/005594.html http://www.sas.com/service/techsup/unotes/SN/005/005692.html http://www.sas.com/service/techsup/unotes/SN/006/006607.html http://www.sas.com/service/techsup/unotes/SN/006/006626.html http://www.sas.com/service/techsup/unotes/SN/008/008501.html The hot fix package that is downloaded is in tar format. The name of the tar file is 82st14s2.tar, and it contains the following files: * sasnlin.82st14 the replacement executable containing the hot fix * sasnlin a link to sasnlin.82st14 * 82st14s2.aud a hot fix identifier file that will allow Technical Support to determine which fixes have been applied to a system * 82st14s2.txt a copy of these installation instructions; this file is installed in !SASROOT/hotfix/doc IMPORTANT NOTE(S): 1. You must have Release 8.2 (TS2M0) 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, !SASROOT, the directory where Release 8.2 (TS2M0) 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/82st14s2.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 Do not modify any existing -PATH options in the !SASROOT/sasv8.cfg file. 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 82ST14 on Solaris.