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SAS Companion for the Microsoft Windows Environment

Processing System Options That Are Set in Several Places

When the same system option is set in more than one place, the most recent specification is used. Therefore, the SAS System Options window or OPTIONS statement takes precedence over the SAS autoexec file; the SAS autoexec file takes precedence over the SAS command; and the SAS command takes precedence over the SAS configuration file and environment variable settings.


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