Winsteps

Winsteps 3.59, to be released shortly, will make it easy to convert SAS datasets into Winsteps control and data files. Thank you, SAS, for providing a freeware (with registration on the SAS website) software interface for reading SAS datasets. This conversion will operate the same way as the current SPSS interface. Winsteps has no automatic SAS output capability yet, but Winsteps does output tab-delimited files which can be imported into SAS. The SAS interface to Winsteps uses Windows "Object Linking and Embedding" OLE linking, so be sure that the latest versions of the Windows components Oleaut32.dll and Olepro32.dll are installed in your computer by doing a "Windows update" check.

This does not affect the functionality of other Rasch SAS procs (see www.winsteps.com/rasch.htm) or Kaz Uekawa's SAS shell for Winsteps, www.estat.us/id2.html.