Date:         Tue, 1 Jul 2003 15:04:19 +0200
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From:         Ace <b.rogers@VIRGIN.NET>
Subject:      Re: Using catalogue Formats help
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On 1 Jul 03 12:48:27 GMT, kendejan@YAHOO.FR (kende jan) wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I received two SAS files:-derm.sas7bdat and formats.sas7bcat.
>How can I do to use the formats for example doing proc freq ?

You need to assign a libname to the directory where you store the
formats catalog, then add that to the format search path, using the
FTMSEARCH option.

e.g.
libname myfmts '/file/location/' ;
options fmtsearch=(work myfmts) ;

HTH

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