[ESS] Replace control characters in log

Wilmar Igl wilmar.igl at gmx.de
Wed Jan 16 13:58:40 CET 2008


Dear Rich,

you hit the bull's eye. It solved the problem completely.

Thank you very much,

Will

Richard M. Heiberger skrev:
> I think we have it now.  Add this line to your autoexec.sas
> 
> options noovp ;        /* prevents error messages in triplicate */
> 
> 
> The history of that line is way, way back a long time ago computer output
> was
> printed on impact lineprinters.  SAS overprinted error messages, effectively
> putting them in bold face, so the user would be sure to see them.
> 
> Today, NO OVerPrinting usually makes more sense.
> 
> The example you gave ERROR^MERROR means that there is at least one ^M that
> is not paired with a linefeed.  Hence Tim's supposition is probably correct.
> 
> Please reply to the list after you use the no overprint option and let us
> know if that solved the ^M printing problem.
> 
> Rich
> 


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