Date:         Wed, 18 Sep 1996 23:16:09 GMT
Reply-To:     Evan Cooch <cooch@FRASER.SFU.CA>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Evan Cooch <cooch@FRASER.SFU.CA>
Organization: Simon Fraser University
Subject:      SAS & Excel files...

For some reason, the students in one of our grad labs insist on
maintain their data files in Excel. While it is fairly trivial to
write out a flat ASCII file, with one form of column delimiter or
other, and then read it into SAS, I 'm wondering if there is some
facility in SAS (v. 6.11) for "directly" ready an Excel file (or Lotus
1-2-3, or dBase or anything else).
 
Any help appreciated.