Date:         Wed, 28 Aug 1996 19:10:43 -0400
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From:         SFBAY0001 <sfbay0001@AOL.COM>
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Subject:      Re: how to shrink the sas dataset

Jeff Bailey correctly points out in his post on this topic that PROC COPY
will, among other things, "squeeze out" (how's that for a fancy techincal
term!) space in a SAS data set which has had observations deleted from it.
 The LENGTH and COMPRESS options mentioned by me and others on this thread
make the data set "narrower," while PROC COPY (or the REUSE = YES data set
option), will make it "shorter"
 
 
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