1996 CRSP Data, Eventus Installed on Sol

By Dr. Philip Baczewski, Associate Director of Academic Computing

The 1996 CRSP data have been installed on sol.acs.unt.edu and should be accessible in /data/sol/CRSP/1996/. The Daily, Monthly, and NASDAQ supplemental data and calendar files have all been converted to binary format (calendar files are all named BCAL, and data file names begin with B also -- very easy to find on the UNIX directory listing). The file /data/sol/CRSP/1996/readme lists the directory names and their associate data collections.

Eventus version 6.3 has also been successfully installed on sol.acs.unt.edu, referencing the 1996 CRSP collection. To access eventus, on sol, simply type eventus to invoke sas with access to the eventus macro library and support library. You can also type eventus name where name is the significant portion of a sas program file, name.sas, containing eventus statements.

An example program has been placed on sol as:

/data/sol/CRSP/EVENTUS/EVENTUS97/samples/unttest.sas

It is suggested that you copy this program to your local directory on sol by using the commands:

cd /projects/sol/user-id (your user-id)

cp /data/sol/CRSP/EVENTUS/EVENTUS97/samples/unttest.sas

You can then use the example program as the basis for creating your own eventus programs.

A copy of the Eventus version 6.3 User's Guide is available for checkout from the ISB Library reservations desk. This manual may be copied for use here at UNT as long as the copyright notice is preserved.

As time allows, further local documentation for the eventus installation on sol will be made available. Hopefully, the above will be enough information to begin using eventus. n