INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR HOT FIX 82ST14 ON WINDOWS BEFORE DOWNLOADING: The hot fix 82ST14 addresses the issue(s) in Release 8.2 (TS2M0) of SAS/STAT software on Windows 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 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 82st14wn.exe. Launching the executable will initiate the install wizard, which will guide you through the setup process. The following files will be installed: * sasnlin.dll the replacement module containing the hot fix * 82st14wn.aud a hot fix identifier file that will allow Technical Support to determine which fixes have been applied to a system * 82st14wn.txt a copy of these installation instructions; this file is installed in !SASROOT\core\sasinst\hotfix This completes the installation of hot fix 82ST14 on Windows.