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  1. questionAre there any C compilers on the ACN Unix system?
    Yes, there are several different varieties that can be invoked separately. An ANSI C compiler can be invoked with just cc. Makefiles will look for the filename.c extension. An ANSI C++ compiler uses CC to compile (note the capital letters). By default the file extensions are filename.cc. The G ...

  2. questionHow can I create fortran code on Windows and compile on unix?
    To be able to compile fortran code on unix that was written in windows (using a simple text editor) all end of line characters must be changed. There are two ways to do this: First, if you send your fortran code from windows to unix via ftp, you can set the transfer type to ascii. Doing this v ...

  3. questionHow can I incorporate IMSL routines into my Fortran code?
    You need to do three things for it to be successful: You need to type the following line at your Unix command prompt to initialize the environment variables: hostname% source /usr/local/imsl/ipt/bin/iptsetup.csh You will need to source this file at the start of each login session before you com ...

  4. questionIs there a Java compiler on the IST Unix system?
    Yes, JDK 1.5.0_01 is available. The compiler can be invoked with javac. For more information concerning the use of Java on Unix, please visit the Java section of the Unix Application Software web page http://www.umanitoba.ca/acn/unix/software/appl_category.html.

  5. questionIs there any way I can read Excel data from SAS?
    Yes, you can use the following SAS code as a template to read in Excel data: libname saslib 'C:\SAS\'; proc access dbms=xls; create saslib.adesname.access; path='A:\EXCEL.XLS'; getnames=yes; scantype=no; skiprows=1; run; proc access dbms=xls accdesc=saslib.adesname; create sasl ...

  6. questionIs there any way I can read Quattro Pro data into SAS?
    Yes, you can use the following SAS code as a template to convert the data: libname saslib 'C:SAS'; filename dbfile 'A:QUATTRO.DB2'; proc dbf db2=dbfile out=saslib; run; Where C:SAS is your SAS working directory, and A:QUATTRO.DB2 is the fully qualified name of the Quattro Pro file.


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