Date:         Sat, 20 Mar 1999 14:06:47 +1100
Reply-To:     Tim CHURCHES <TCHUR@DOH.HEALTH.NSW.GOV.AU>
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From:         Tim CHURCHES <TCHUR@DOH.HEALTH.NSW.GOV.AU>
Subject:      Re: SASTrap:V604 library engine not in Ver7.00. -Reply -Reply
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John Whittington writes:
> Quite ... but even DBMS/Copy entails a stage of conversion taht I could
> do without.  I want to be able to open 6.04 datsets directly from SAS!
 
John,
 
The DBMS/Copy people also sell a product called DBMS/Engines which allows you to read and write "foreign" data formats (such as SAS V6.04 datasets) from within SAS via the use of an engine option in the libname statement. Very clever.
 
Tim C