WS Tip: Replace Viewtable in V6

In May 1997 there was a discussion about the Viewtable in SAS 6.12 which replaced FSEDIT and FSVIEW when you try to look at a dataset or edit it form the DIR window. Many participants complained that they wanted back the old FSEDIT and FSVIEW.

Now here is the solution:
If you want to call FSVIEW/FSEDIT from the DIR window simply replace SASHELP.FSP.VTMAIN.FRAME by your own program.

1. First: Rename VTMAIN.FRAME to XTMAIN.FRAME
   
   
2. Then create a new Frame Entry VTMAIN.FRAME with the following SCL:
   

    ENTRY arglist 8  ;
   
    init:
      _STATUS_ = "H";
      name = getnitemc(arglist,"DATA",1,1," ");
      mode = getnitemc(arglist,"MODE",1,1," ");
      if mode = "EDIT" then
         call fsedit (name);
      else if mode = "BROWSE" then
         call fsview (name);
      else
         call display("SASHELP.FSP.XTMAIN.FRAME",arglist);
    RETURN;
   

3. The viewtable command will continue to work, but from the DIR window you will call fsview and fsedit.