... Meta Index / Home Page / Description A task that possesses preference parameters reads those from a global preference file sas.pref in the SAS configuration area. ... For a first-time SAS user the preference file does not exist yet but has to be created by running the task sasprefgen without any arguments on the command line. ... Any modifications to this file, like adding, removing, re-grouping, or changing the values of individual entries will be done by a TBD editor task. ...