Chris,

Just started using EG 8.1 a few weeks ago. Overall, I'm really liking it (except for losing SYSECHO in the status line as we discussed previously). Gotta say the new "streaming" feature of the log seems (without any detailed benchmarking) to be bringing me my log statements in a much more timely fashion. Under version 7 and prior, if a job crashed, often I'd never get to see the very part of the log that would have helped me diagnose the problem. There are tricks like PRINTTO, ALTLOG, writing your own logging statements to a file, and SYSECHO, but it's a whole lot simpler to use the SAS log as intended.

Jim