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X <'command'>; |
The command is passed to Windows and executed in the context of the working directory. If errors occur, the appropriate error messages are displayed.
By default, you must type EXIT to return to your SAS session after the command has completed execution. Also by default, if you execute a Windows application such as Notepad, you must close the application before you can return to your SAS session. Specify NOXWAIT in an OPTIONS statement if you do not want to have to type EXIT. With NOXWAIT in effect, as soon as the command finishes execution, control is returned to your SAS session. Note, however, that if you execute a Windows application with the X statement, specifying NOXWAIT does not let you return to your SAS session until you close the application.
Another system option, XSYNC, controls whether you have to wait for the command to finish executing before you can return to your SAS session. If you specify NOXSYNC, you can start a Windows application with the X statement and return to your SAS session without closing the application. For additional details about these two system options, see XWAIT and XSYNC.
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The X statement issues a host command from within a SAS session when you run SAS in windowing mode. The SAS System executes the X statement immediately.
Under Windows, you can issue the X statement without the command argument.
There are other ways of running operating environment commands besides the X statement (and the X command) under Windows.
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