Hi,

I need to remove a SAS installation from a laptop that I have borrowed and
will be returning shortly.  The owner of the laptop is a company that has
its own SAS license, however it is very different from the license that I
was using (i.e. no IML, no ETS) and I don't wish to break any licensing
requirements in relation to my personal license.  I don't wish to remove SAS
from the laptop - just the setinit based license information so that when
the company needs to use SAS they can apply their own details. If I was sure
that the company would immediately apply their own setinit then I would ask
for that but it is unlikely that his would be provided.

My personal setinit expires in March 2004.

Is there an option in proc setinit that will remove a setinit?

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Doug

Doug,

The following worked for me (tested on WinNT 4 and SAS8.2).
Try at you own risk:

The license information is stored in the following catalog:
<sasroot>\core\sashelp\core.sas7bcat

If you replace it with the original catalog, you're set.
(Solutions Disk 1: \sas\core\sashelp\core.sas7bcat)
If you copy it from the CD, make sure you turn off the read-only attribute
of core.sas7bcat on the laptop, otherwise it can not be updated!

Also check if you need to remove <sasroot>\core\sasinst\setinit.sss.

Now the company can apply their own SAS license with command:
"<sasroot>\sas.exe" <path to their setinit.sss> -setinit -nologo -noautoexec

Lex Jansen
easy access to the SUGI papers at www.lex-jansen.demon.nl/sugi


"doug" <queanbeyan@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I need to remove a SAS installation from a laptop that I have borrowed and
> will be returning shortly.  The owner of the laptop is a company that has
> its own SAS license, however it is very different from the license that I
> was using (i.e. no IML, no ETS) and I don't wish to break any licensing
> requirements in relation to my personal license.  I don't wish to remove
SAS
> from the laptop - just the setinit based license information so that when
> the company needs to use SAS they can apply their own details. If I was
sure
> that the company would immediately apply their own setinit then I would
ask
> for that but it is unlikely that his would be provided.
>
> My personal setinit expires in March 2004.
>
> Is there an option in proc setinit that will remove a setinit?
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
> Doug
>
>