[ESS] reduce frass in SAS work directory

[Rodney Sparapani]

Kristian S. Omland wrote:
> Hi all,
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> My work is leaving many files (e.g., data sets that I never intended to
> keep as permanent) behind in the /work directory. I am the only one in
> my shop using ESS, so I suspect this results from running SAS as a
> subprocess. Is there something I can put in my .emacs to prevent this?
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> Using Fedora Core 3, GNU Emacs 21.3.1, ESS 5.3.6, SAS 9.1.3.
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> Thanks,
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> Kristian
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Hi Kristian:

This might be a good question for SAS-L since I don't think ESS is 
involved.  The default SAS option is WORKTERM, or delete the WORK
library at termination (you can check your setting with PROC OPTIONS). 
I do see the same thing occasionally, even though, I never use SAS 
interactively so I don't think that's it.  However, I've never bothered 
to try to figure out why this occurs.  SAS has provided the convenient
script cleanwork that I run occasionally to delete all of the stray WORK 
libraries (it won't delete those associated with a job in progress).

Rodney