Math Forum / Math Software / SAS / October 2008

FS View is part of SAS/FSP which is a seperate product.

The SAS System Viewer may be downloaded free from SAS Institute.

Nat Wooding
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Hi All,

Can you tell me which module do i need, to use FSV / FSE features...

Thanks

P.S. isnt this something you get with the BASE SAS pack?

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I believe, FSV is part of BASE SAS, used to do data entry, editing,
retrieval, querying. It can be invoked by using any of the FSP
procedures (EDIT,VIEW,BROWSE,LIST,LETTER). This SUGI paper "http://
www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi25/25/btu/25p065.pdf" gives a good
insight.

Thanks!
Akshaya

Yes,  FSLetter is still in the FSP documentation. I, for one, have never
found a need for it but I think I recall an old SUGI paper in which someone
used it as a forms generator for printing some standard document. And, no,
I don't remember which SUGI.

By the way, if you define a screen catalog for FSEdit/FSBrowse and run one
of these procs in a non-display mode, you will generate a listing of your
data set with each obs displayed on a seperate image that is formated
according to the layout of the screen definition in the catalog.  For those
who have never seen FSP, these procs display a single obs at a time and the
user has the option of defining the layout of the display. For example, if
you have a data set that contains billing information, you could define a
screen with the layout of a bill and then use one of  these procs with the
screen definition to print your bills. It's been a while but I think that I
have used this trick once or twice.

As far as I know, FSCALC was a separate product.

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I've been hearing this for years, that FSP (of which FSView is a part) is
part of the base system, but I've never been anywhere and seen this to be
the case.  I suppose it's just barely possible that SAS will grant a
license
for FSP without charging an additional fee, but such a practice would be
very uncharacteristic.

It's been at least a decade and a half since I saw FSLetter - does it still
exist?  Longer than that since I've seen FSCalc - trying to invoke it on my
machine produces an error message.

It's the work of less than a minute to see if you have FSP - the various
procedures can be invoked with a PROC statement, but it's often easier to
just use the command line.  For instance, suppose you executed the
following:

DATA FEE;
  DO N = 1 TO 10;
     OUTPUT;
  END;
  STOP;
RUN;

You could view the dataset by typing, on the command line or in the command
box,

FSVIEW FEE

(and pressing the enter key, of course.)

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