Tailoring hard copy publications for the internet

By now, most people know first hand the capability of the World Wide Web (Web), the most widely used part of the Internet, as a medium through wh ich information can be accessed quickly. In the health environment having information "at your finger tips" is valuable. The health care system is not only constantly changing, but is also constantly being reevaluated. The SAS(R) System can not only produce hard copy reports containing tables and maps but also take the same information and reformat it for distribution on the Web. This paper is intended for programmers interested in SAS and its ability to develop customized Web pages. It will be shown (1) how DATA _NULL_ is used to create static Web pages from ASCII tables already produced with SAS for hard copy reports, (2) how SAS/GRAPH(R) programs are adapted to make maps used in hard copy reports Web-compatible, and (3) how the Macro language facility is used to mass produce Web pages.