Date:         Wed, 25 Jun 1997 03:31:05 GMT
Reply-To:     jim-law@cuhk.edu.hk
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Jim Law <jim-law@CUHK.EDU.HK>
Organization: Computer Services Centre, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Subject:      Datasource for CompuStat Univerial Character Format(CSAUC and
              CS48QUC)

Would you help me?
 
I run a SAS/ETC procedure to extract CompuStat data on ASCII format by:
 
filename compstat '/datalib5/compustat/annual';
proc datasource filetype=csauc infile=compstat
                out = stocks outby=company      option=ascii;
 
run;
 
The following is the error message:
 
ERROR: The character set cannot be determined from the first record of the
       file COMPSTAT. Use either the ASCII or EBCDIC option to indicate the
       character set of the incoming data.
 
Do you have any idea?
 
Jim Law
Computer Services Centre
The Chinese University of Hong Kong