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SAS: Determine programmatically which machine is running SAS

I am trying to write a macro, but it is accessing a path variable

  • on Windows it could be C: \ Temp
  • On Unix this might be / tmp

How can I determine programmatically which type of machine is running SAS so I can assign the appropriate path value?

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%put _automatic_;

is the first place you should look when looking for things like this - it shows all of the auto-defined macro variables, many of which define your work environment.



In this case, it &SYSSCPL.

provides the operating system (in my case X64_7PRO

for Windows 7 64 bit). There is also &SYSHOSTNAME

, which is the "name" of the computer (defined differently for different operating systems).

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