Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 09:35:03 -0500
Reply-To: Henry Feldman <hfeldman@CONCEPTUAL.COM>
Sender: "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From: Henry Feldman <hfeldman@CONCEPTUAL.COM>
Subject: Re: Reading unix dataset from v6.12 on win95
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At 10:15 PM 7/22/97 GMT, you wrote:
>On Tue, 22 Jul 1997 09:43:45 -0700, Daniel Nordlund
><nordldj@dshs.wa.gov> wrote:
>
>>I have received a unix sas dataset and need to read it on a win95
>>platform using SAS v6.12. Can someone describe how to do this, or point
>>to where this process is documented in the online documentation (I don't
>>have access to my manuals at the moment)? Any help would be greatly
>>appreciated.
>
>If it were your dataset on Unix, you would conventionally write
>a transport file with the XPORT engine, and then read that file
>on windows. This is necessary because SAS, inexplicably, will
>not read its own files from a different platform.
>
DBMS/Engines will enable your SAS for Windows program to directly read
the SAS for Unix file. No conversion necessary.
For more information please see the web site http://www.conceptual.com/
Henry
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