Date:         Thu, 15 May 2003 09:53:36 -0500
Reply-To:     "Peck, Jon" <peck@spss.com>
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From:         "Peck, Jon" <peck@spss.com>
Subject:      Re: Exporting SPSS to SAS
Comments: To: "Richard J. Reeves" <rr223@cornell.edu>
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The current version of SPSS allows you simply to save a dataset in SAS format, either transport or native.  It includes the option of saving the value labels for SAS as well.

This is a much more robust method than using the portable file format.

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard J. Reeves [mailto:rr223@cornell.edu]
Sent: jeudi 15 mai 2003 09:06
To: SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: [SPSSX-L] Exporting SPSS to SAS


Hi Jakob,

I did not see a response yet so here is how I do it.

When I move from SPSS to SAS I save the SPSS file as a *.por in the files
of type (SPSS portable file format).  The import command for SAS looks like
proc convert spss=save out=LIBRARY.NAME;
filename save 'D:\SPSS\DATA\SPSSFILE.por';;

SAS does a decent job of documenting this in their help file.  The portable
file format saves labels and may even do values (can't recall).