Section 3.1: OPTIONS that control the output window

If the OPTIONS statement shown below is not already written in an 
autoexec.sas file (See Section 1.5), as a minimum you will most likely 
want to include it at the top of every command file to set up the working 
environment for printed results to the output window, e.g.:

  OPTIONS NOcenter linesize=78 pagesize=55 formdlim='_';

The options listed on this statement are designed to allow you to easily 
read the printed output on output window and will be among those described 
below.  In order to view which options are available and in effect for 
your SAS session, use PROC OPTIONS:

PROC OPTIONS; RUN;

A listing of common choices for the OPTIONS statement that affect the 
output window include:

Center          Center the output listing

NOcenter        Left justify the output listing (useful when your
                output is to be transferred into a file read by your
                word processor or you just prefer to just view it
                that way)

Date            The current date is printed in the title
NOdate          Do not print the current date on the header

formchar=       This option will print text formatted borders in the
                SAS listing file.  The characters for insertion are:
                formchar='|----|+|---';

formdlim='_'    Choose a symbol or use a blank between the quotes
                to indicate what character value is to be printed
                whenever a page break occurs

Label           SAS procedures will print variable labels

NOLabel         Do not print variable labels in procedures

linesize=xx     Line size for printed output (72<=xx<=132)

ls=78           ls=xx is short for linesize=xx; (ls=78 is a choice
                to print the output on 8.5" x 11" paper)

pageno=1        Resets the current page number on the print file

pagesize=xx     Maximum number of lines printed per page of output 
ps=55           before header is printed (ps=xx is short for
                pagesize=xx;  ps=30 is the default value)


skip=5          The title statements will begin to appear 5 lines
                from the top of the page.  This option causes the
                contents of the output listing to start further down
                the page so that you can leave extra room at the top
                of each page.

missing='M'     Set the printed missing value symbol to an M (or other   
                letter of your choice) instead of a period ( . )

NOnumber        Do not print page numbers (page numbers are printed by
                default)