Date:         Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:42:18 +1000
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From:         David Johnson <d@DKVJ.BIZ>
Subject:      Re: SAS dataset on Unix challenge
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I have a lot more sympathy for sysadmins who frequently get questions from
people asking them to provide some other service on the machine that has the
potential to open it up to instability or subversion.

I was looking for papers on a subject the other day and came across one by
Karsten Self, who we haven't seen on here for a long time.  Shame, I think
this might have been in his bailiwick.

Kind regards

David


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David
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Subject: Re: SAS dataset on Unix challenge


What version of SAS?  On SAS 9 you should be able to open an IOM
connection, assuming they haven't firewalled it.  (That might also be
the problem with SAS/SHARE and ODBC/OLEDB).

If you don't have an NFS or SAMBA server, try HTTP, FTP, Telnet, SSH,
or even email.  They must have _some_ sort of way of communicating
with the Unix box, basically you need to tunnel over that.  (That
brings back memories of tunneling the zmodem protocol over VT100 to
some ancient DEC machines).

(Why does the un-helpfulness of the sysadmins sound so familiar?)