If you have SAS-PC, you have a graphical interface in which to write programs and view output.

There is one big difference about the graphical mode. You type commands into a "program editor" and submit them. But the SAS program does nothing until you type in the command "run;" and send it in. So you end up with stupid looking programs like

Data .....
;
run;

PROC REG;
   model y=x;
run;

One simple/direct thing about the grahics mode: A PROC like PLOT has a graphical counterpart GPLOT. Chart has a graphical companion GCHART. If you use these PROCs, and your sas session can sense you have graphical display, then these things will show on your monitor.

How do you get a graphical SAS session when your SAS is on lark? The answer is: INSTALL AN X-Server.

After you have an X-Server running, and you telnet to lark, then you export the display to your current IP and then you should run the NEWER SAS edition, which is done by the command

# sas82

-- PaulJohnson - 10 Dec 2002