>
> Hi Prof. Brunner,
>
> I am a student in your consulting course.  I noticed 
[this part of the student's message is deleted] --is it deliberate?

Yes. [deleted] Now fix the problem.
Assume the client is not available for questioning.

> Also, I am unable
> to open that dataset in sas.  This is what I type:
>
>
> infile 'http://utstat.toronto.edu/~brunner/2453F01/data/sat.dat';
>
> Am I missing the directory?

Yes. But my suggestion is to make a copy of the data file from the Web,
and work with that. It is a very rare case that the client's data happen
to be on the same computer you are using to do the analysis! 

> Hi Jerry,
>
>    I have just found that I can use 'chart' to draw histograms. A little
> trouble is the choice of bin width. Shall I just use the default given
> by SAS?

There are options you can use to control this; you may need to borrow a
SAS manual from somebody.

>
>    It seems very important to control the output if I do not want to see
> pages and pages of unwanted things.


Yeah, SAS is famous for producing a lot of extra stuff. Customers complain
even more loudly if something they want to see is missin; - and allowing
the user to choose exacly the desired output would make the software very
complicated for a non-statistician to use. So you have to know what to
ignore; you can always cut down the output with a text editor.

But please do NOT edit the list file or log file when you hand them in for
this first assignment.