Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 13:40:23 -0800
Reply-To: "William W. Viergever" <wwvierg@IBM.NET>
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From: "William W. Viergever" <wwvierg@IBM.NET>
Subject: Re: Questions--Sas 7.0 backwards compatability
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Having not had much time to play w/ v7 yet, I went to my OS/2 box just now and ran a quick 6.12 job that I had run yesterday off my NT 4.0 box. The job reads two small v608 (engine) files and references a permanent format in a particular permanent fmtlib *and* %inc's in another set of formats.
When I ran it the 1st time I forgot it was accessing the permanent fmtlib so I brought over my fmtlib.sas job to recreate the formats on the OS/2 box. That job bobmbed b/c it couldn't write out a v608 (engine) format lib?!? I removed the v608 from the libname library statement and the job ran fine. I next ran the main job and it read the v608 (engine) datasets just fine and put out the desired raw file fine as well.
Just a quick $0.02.
Later
At 05:48 PM 2/10/99 -0800, Berryhill, Timothy wrote:
>Just curious, how interoperable are V7 and V6? Can V7 read a V6 library?
>Can V7 write a V6 library? Can V7 use V6 formats (a V6 format catalog)? On
>boxes where the concept applies, can V7 read both V6 and V7 libraries in a
>single directory? How about views, can V7 use a V6 view (there is a warning
>when you store a permanent view...)?
>
>Tim Berryhill - Contract Programmer and General Wizard
>TWB2@PGE.COM or http://www.aartwolf.com/twb.html
>Frequently at Pacific Gas & Electric Co., San Francisco
>The correlation coefficient between their views and
>my postings is slightly less than 0
>
>
>> ----------
>> From: John Whittington[SMTP:medisci@POWERNET.COM]
>> Reply To: John Whittington
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 4:59 PM
>> To: SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU
>> Subject: Re: Sas 7.0 backwards compatability
>>
>> At 08:39 10/02/99 -0500, Fehd, Ronald J. wrote:
>>
>> >I was wondering whether I would be able to point V6 sessions and V7
>> sessions
>> >to the same project. The gist of the error message below seems to me to
>> be
>> >that my stored compiled macro catalog created by V6 cannot be updated by
>> V7.
><SNIP>
>> To be fair to SI, when I said that they were 'very good at ensuring
>> backward
>> compatability', I meant at the level of source code - it is probably
>> asking
>> a lot for somthing like a compiled macro to be 'compatible' in the sense
>> you
><SNIP>
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