SAS Companion for the OpenVMS Environment

X Command Line Options

When you invoke some X clients, such as the SAS System, you can use command line options that are passed to the X Window System. In general, you should specify X Window System options after SAS options on the command line with the /XRES option. For example:

SAS7/xres="-display wizard:0.0"

The X command line options and their values must be enclosed in either single or double quotation marks. If the first blank-separated element of a /XRES argument list does not begin with a hyphen (-), it is assumed to be the name to use for the application instance.

The following list describes the X command line options that are available when you invoke a SAS session from the command prompt:

-display host:server.screen

specifies the name or IP address of the terminal on which you want to display the SAS session. For example, if your display node is wizard, you might enter

-display wizard:0.0

-display 10.22.1.1:0

-name instance-name

reads the resources in your SAS resource file that begin with the value specified for instance-name. For example, -name MYSAS reads the resources that begin with MYSAS such as

MYSAS.dmsfont: Cour14
MYSAS.defaultToolbox: True

You can also specify the value for instance-name without putting -name in the /XRES option if it is the first thing in the quotation marks. For example:

SAS7/xres="SAS"

is the same as

SAS7/xres="-name SAS"

-xrm string

specifies a resource to override any defaults. For example, the following resource turns off the Confirm dialog box when you exit SAS:

-xrm 'SAS.confirmSASExit: False'

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