Date:         Wed, 5 Oct 2005 18:19:04 -0400
Reply-To:     Gerhard Hellriegel <ghellrieg@T-ONLINE.DE>
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From:         Gerhard Hellriegel <ghellrieg@T-ONLINE.DE>
Subject:      Re: sav files
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That was what I feared. If you have access to a SPSS installation it might
help to open that backup (?) file with that tool and store it in the
original SPSS format. That should be accessible via the SPSS engine.
Maybe another possibility:

try
data a;
  infile "c:\RAE008b FINAL DATA FOR RELEASE.SAV" truncover;
  input a $200.;
  list;
  if _n_=50 then stop;
run;

If you see in the listed records any structure, e.g. a kind of header with
structure informations, you might be able to read the file with the input
statement. I once did that with dBase files. If the structure is not too
complicated that might be possible.


On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 23:54:03 +0200, Miguel de la Hoz <miguel_hoz@YAHOO.ES> wrote:

>I was not lucky, I keep trying
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>
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>Many thanks.
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>11355 libname x SPSS "c:\RAE008b FINAL DATA FOR RELEASE.SAV";
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>NOTA: La 'libref' X se ha asignado correctamente:
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>Motor: SPSS
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>Nombre físico: c:\RAE008b FINAL DATA FOR RELEASE.SAV
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>ERROR: Uso indebido del acceso de lectura En tarea [ DMSEXP )
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>La excepción tuvo lugar en [66157EB2]
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>Task Traceback
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>Address Frame (DBGHELP API Version 4.0 rev 5)
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>66157EB2 02A3C990 0001:00006EB2 sasspss.dll
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>66152B1F 02A3CE0C 0001:00001B1F sasspss.dll
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>661522AF 02A3CE44 0001:000012AF sasspss.dll
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>6721B19D 02A3D070 0001:0002A19D sasyoio.dll
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>675F1D23 02A3D81C 0001:00000D23 sasyui.dll
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>676154B8 02A3E0C8 0001:000144B8 saszu.dll
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>676070D0 02A3E338 0001:000060D0 saszu.dll
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>67C8974A 02A3E380 sasvwu:mcn_main+0x2874A
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>67D0A4C5 02A3E3F4 sasvwu:mcn_main+0xA94C5
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>67D0A38E 02A3E424 sasvwu:mcn_main+0xA938E
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>67CBE566 02A3E9F0 sasvwu:mcn_main+0x5D566
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>67D07071 02A3EA54 sasvwu:mcn_main+0xA6071
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>67611AEC 02A3F0B8 0001:00010AEC saszu.dll
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>676075D4 02A3F350 0001:000065D4 saszu.dll
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>67643FEE 02A3F428 0001:00002FEE sasxfs.dll
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>676437B8 02A3F454 0001:000027B8 sasxfs.dll
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>6761E7D9 02A3FF74 0001:0001D7D9 saszu.dll
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>67491046 02A3FF84 0001:00000046 saszdex.dll
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>67E223EE 02A3FFA0 0001:000113EE sashost.dll
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>67E26DE0 02A3FFB4 0001:00015DE0 sashost.dll
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>7C80B50B 02A3FFEC kernel32:GetModuleFileNameA+0x1B4
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>ERROR: Error crítico genérico.
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>
>Gerhard Hellriegel <ghellrieg@T-ONLINE.DE> escribió:On Wed, 5 Oct 2005
23:18:05 +0200, Miguel de la Hoz wrote:
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Is it possible to read .sav data files in SAS? I think they came from SPSS
>>
>>many Thanks
>>
>>Miguel.
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>>
>>---------------------------------
>>
>>Correo Yahoo!
>>Comprueba qué es nuevo, aquí
>>http://correo.yahoo.es
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>sounds as a kind of backup file?? You can try it out with the SPSS engine:
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>libname x SPSS "c:\the_name_of_file.SAV";
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>Have a look into the lib to see if there is something listed...
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>---------------------------------
>
>Correo Yahoo!
>Comprueba qué es nuevo, aquí
>http://correo.yahoo.es