PMANERA@NYBVX1.BITNET (Peter Manera) (10/24/85)
Just a quick warning for those of you who want to go to 4.2 and have SAS, too:
D O N ' T !
At least if you want to run Version 5 of SAS, which is shipping now. It won't
work. Period.
SAS couldn't get a pre-release of 4.2, and there are a lot of things going
wrong. Here's the situation as it stands:
1. SAS Version 4.10 will work with VMS Version 4.2 if you've
applied the RTL patch that was the hot rage in Info-VAX a
while back. (The patch is DEC # MTH043 to MTH$DEXP.)
2. SAS Version 5.02 will run with VMS 3.X.
3. SAS Version 5.03 will run with VMS 4.0 to 4.1+.
4. SAS Version 5.04(?) will run with VMS 4.2.
I spoke with SAS today and they were, even as we spoke, recompiling SAS under
4.2. There's a lot of heat on, and they're doing their best. But while I'm
a great SAS advocate, I think they should have let us know that it woudn't
work. Too much postage, I guess. Anyway, a word to the wise...
Peter