Date:         Mon, 8 Dec 2003 09:20:18 -0800
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From:         "David L. Cassell" <cassell.david@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV>
Subject:      Re: Dataset not found when used as input to a DATA step or PROC A
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Howard Schreier <Howard_Schreier@ITA.DOC.GOV> sagely replied:
> Are you perhaps omitting the extension portions of the dataset names?
If
> not, have you been creating SAS datasets which do not have the
standard
> extensions? I would advise against that.

So would I.  :-)

Alternatively, could the original poster be trying to read in flat files
using the syntax for SAS data sets?

It's hard to tell without either additional info (like the actual
data, SAS code, and SAS logs), or else help from the Psychic Friends
Hotline.  (But they got shut down by the Feds, how did they not see
that coming?)

David
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David Cassell, CSC
Cassell.David@epa.gov
Senior computing specialist
mathematical statistician