Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:00:00 -0400
Reply-To:     Lou <lpogoda@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Lou <lpogoda@HOTMAIL.COM>
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Subject:      Re: A big flat file is not fitting into a disk. How to work with
Comments: To: sas-l@uga.edu

"Jonathan Goldberg" <jgoldberg@BIOMEDSYS.COM> wrote in message
news:200909301700.n8UFV1Vl004497@malibu.cc.uga.edu...
> CNTLIN was implemented sometime in the 90s.  I remember that in the 80s I
> used to write macros that wrote proc format code, learning some
> interesting things about macro quoting along the way.  Sometime in the 90s
> CNTLIN came along and I stopped needing to do that.
>
Not quite true.  In Version 5, PROC FORMAT did not have the CNTLIN and
CNTLOUT options, but PROC FMTLIB did.  I don't remember when these options
were added to PROC FORMAT, but PROC FMTLIB is still out there, and still
works.