Thanks for the reply. I'm glad to hear I am not alone. :-)

Does anybody know if older versions of Dr. Goulet's Emacs bundle are still
available somewhere online?  It would be nice to install an older version
while a fix for the current ESS version is in the works, but (despite using
Emacs for several years) I'm not fluent enough in Emacs to know how to
rollback to 5.14.  (Dr. Goulet's package makes everything so simple.)

Thanks again
McKay



On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa@mcw.edu> wrote:

> On 11/19/2012 10:59 AM, S. McKay Curtis wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I recently upgraded to the latest version of ESS via Vincent Goulet's
>> Emacs
>> bundle, and I am having issues submitting code to a remote SAS process
>> (which worked prior to the upgrade).  Essentially, my procedure to run SAS
>> was to do the following:
>>
>>
> This is the second report we have received about 12.09.  Something
> must really be wrong ;o)
>
>
>  1) M-x ssh
>> 2) Enter required information to log in remotely to a Unix SAS server.
>> 3) Start SAS from the command line with the following command:
>>
>> sas -stdio -linesize 80 -noovp -nosyntaxcheck -autoexec autoexec.sas
>> -display **IP Address here**
>> 4) M-x ess-remote in the same buffer as the remote SAS session
>> 5) Type "sas" when dialect is requested
>>
>>
> This is where it seems to break down.  Instead of sending commands
> to the SAS session that was launched...  ESS tries to create
> a new SAS session locally rather than remotely in the new buffers
> *SAS.log* and *SAS.lst*.  I'm pretty sure that this worked in 5.14
> so you can rollback to that.
>
>
>  Then I could submit code from a sas file using commands like
>>
>> ess-eval-line-and-step-**invisibly
>>
>> Now when I run the above command, Emacs spawns a new "shell" window and
>> gives the error "Spawning child process: invalid argument."
>>
>> Does anyone have any ideas on how I can fix this?
>>
>> Thanks much!
>> McKay
>>
>
> I don't get that error.  Rather I see:
>
>
> Type <f1> m for help on ESS version 12.09-1
> Cannot read history file /bnp/rodney/sas/.SAShistory
> Type <f1> m for help on ESS version 12.09-1
> Cannot read history file /bnp/rodney/sas/.SAShistory
> Type <f1> m for help on ESS version 12.09-1
> ...
> Cannot read history file /bnp/rodney/sas/.SAShistory
> apply: Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size
>
>
> I don't have a fix at this time.  But, this is an excellent
> bug report ;o)  Thanks
>
> --
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> Sr. Biostatistician               http://www.mcw.edu/pcor
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