AUTOSCROLL

AUTOSCROLL

Controls the display of lines in the LOG and OUTPUT windows

Language element: command

OpenVMS specifics: default values

Syntax
Details
See Also

Syntax

AUTOSCROLL <n | PAGE | MAX>

no argument: displays the current setting of the AUTOSCROLL command.
n: specifies the number of lines that the window should scroll when it receives a line of data that cannot fit. The default in the OUTPUT window is 1.
PAGE: specifies in the OUTPUT window only that no lines are displayed until a complete page of output is written to the window.
MAX: specifies in the OUTPUT window only that no lines are written until the end of each procedure.

Details

Under OpenVMS, the default value for the AUTOSCROLL command in the OUTPUT window is 1 (meaning that no output is written to that window while statements are executing, which provides the best performance).

Scrolling can increase the length of time that the SAS System takes to run your program. The less scrolling that the LOG and OUTPUT windows have to do, the faster your program will run. Setting the value of n equal to 0 may also speed up interactive jobs.

See Also

AUTOSCROLL command in the SAS online Help

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