Date:         Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:29:24 -0500
Reply-To:     "Schulingkamp, Michael E" <michael.e.schulingkamp@LMCO.COM>
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From:         "Schulingkamp, Michael E" <michael.e.schulingkamp@LMCO.COM>
Subject:      Re: reading UNIX compressed file with pipe
Comments: To: "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@IX.NETCOM.COM>
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According to the online doc, the recfm=n can be placed on either line.  If I
move it to the infile statement, there is no change.  I'm unable to copy the
log into this mail message (the work I do is on another system which is
secure).  However, the error message that I get is

    ERROR: Random access not allowed

And, yes, the uncompress command does work in the shell.

-Mike



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karsten M. Self [SMTP:kmself@IX.NETCOM.COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 9:54 PM
> To:   SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject:      Re: reading UNIX compressed file with pipe
>
> on Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 08:13:02PM -0500, Schulingkamp, Michael E
> (michael.e.schulingkamp@LMCO.COM) wrote:
> > I currently have code which reads binary files on the UNIX system.
> > Most times, the files are compress with the UNIX compress command.  I
> > am trying to change the code so that it reads the compressed files
> > using a pipe but I am having little success.  The code looks something
> > like this:
> >
> > filename indata pipe 'uncompress -c file.Z'  recfm=n ;
> > data set10 ;
> >   infile indata ;
> >   input ...
> > run;
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> I suspect you want the recfm option on the infile statement, not the
> filename statement.
>
> How doesn't your code work?  Log output would be helpful.
>
> Does the pipe command work on the shell?
>
> Peace.
>
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