Date:         Mon, 7 Mar 2011 15:37:50 +0000
Reply-To:     "Keintz, H. Mark" <mkeintz@WHARTON.UPENN.EDU>
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From:         "Keintz, H. Mark" <mkeintz@WHARTON.UPENN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Reading Linux files from a Windows server
Comments: To: Suzanne McCoy <Suzanne.McCoy@CATALINAMARKETING.COM>
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Suzanne:

In the case of files associated with a FILE or INFILE statement, the dos2unix utility can generally be avoided by use of the TERMSTR option on FILE and INFILE statements, as in:


** SAS program on windows able to read and write UNIX files **
** that are map-able to the Windows file system             **;

data _null_;
  infile 'some unix file' termstr=LF;
  input ... ;
  ...
  file 'some other unix file' termmstr=LF;
  put ... ;
run;



Regards,
Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Suzanne McCoy
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 8:33 AM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: Reading Linux files from a Windows server

Easiest way is to use Enterprise Guide.  If using base SAS you will need to use a dos2unix conversion first to handle the CR/LF differences between the operating systems or drop the unix/linux files on a NAS share to do the file conversion automatically.

-----Original Message-----
From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Kroll, J. (Jeffrey)
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 8:24 AM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Reading Linux files from a Windows server

Is it possible to set up SAS on a Windows server and easily read files
based on Linux servers?   Is it just a matter of using a FILENAME or
LIBNAME pointing to the location of the file or is something more complicated involved?  Thanks.



Jeff Kroll


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