The fixes in this directory are related to running SAS Version 6.12 on the Compaq Tru64 5.0 operating systems. With this new release of the Compaq Tru64 operating system, SAS Institute is providing a new, patched SAS executable. Without this new sas executable, SAS users will experience problems when they attempt to run sas. Additionally, if users attempt to install sas they will receive errors during the setinit phase of the installation. For more information on this problem, you should consult the SAS Note G637. This can be found on the SAS TS Web site at: SAS Note: http://www.sas.com/service/techsup/unotes/V6/G/G6637.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NOTE: To apply the new sas module, users MUST be at the SAS 6.12 TS040 or TS051 maintenance level FIRST !! To verify that this is the case look at the top of a recent sas .log file and you will see the following: NOTE: Copyright (c) 1989-1996 by SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA. NOTE: SAS (r) Proprietary Software Release 6.12 TS055 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To apply the fix perform the following steps: 1. Download the sas.tru64.v5.Z in binary mode. This can be done via a web browser with the following url: ftp://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/unix If your browser doesn't support ftp url's then the following also works: http://www.sas.com/service/techsup/ftp/download.html Then click on the "SAS System on UNIX" link and find the file. This can be done via an ftp client with the following command sequence: ftp ftp.sas.com cd /techsup/download/unix binary get sas.tru64.v5.Z close quit 2. Now uncompress the file you just downloaded: uncompress sas.tru64.v5 2. Make sure that the permissions on the new modules that you just copied are 755: chmod 755 ./sas.tru64.v5 4. Copy the new sas executable into !sasroot. /---------------------------------------------------------------/ /* !sasroot refers to the installation directory for SAS 6.12. */ /* For this example, !sasroot refers to /usr/local/sas612 */ /---------------------------------------------------------------/ cd !sasroot cp chmod 755 sas.tru64.v5 it is suggested to use the 'chown' command to set ownership of the new sas executable to match the current ownership of the sas file. For example: ls -l sas See who owns the sas file and then: chown ./sas.tru64.v5 (ex. chown bin ./sas.tru64.v5 ) After copying the new sas executable, you will need to re-patch the sas binary. While still in the !sasroot directory, just enter: ./utilities/bin/patchname ./sas.tru64.v5 /usr/local/sas612 NOTE: To invoke sas using the fixes above, you will need to use the following line: !sasroot/sas.tru64.v5 Once you have completed the above and tested it successfully, you may want to rename the patched version of the executable to the regular name of "sas". You can follow the instructions below to perform this operation: cd !sasroot mv sas sas.old mv ./sas.tru64.v5 ./sas