topic Re: Convert UNX SAS Files to Windows in SAS Data Management

Convert UNX SAS Files to Windows

Davanden — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 12:54:31 GMT

I imagine that this is an easy question to answer, but I've been unable to find the combination of search terms that will find it in the knowledge base. I get a lot of SAS files produced in a UNIX environment. I work in Windows. Whenever I access one of the UNIX files, I get a message about it, and a statement that it will take more resources, etc. How do I convert the files to Windows so that I can be done with that?

Dav Vandenbroucke

Re: Convert UNX SAS Files to Windows

Reeza — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 13:01:58 GMT

Proc cport/xport but it means duplicating your data.

Re: Convert UNX SAS Files to Windows

Tom — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 13:04:27 GMT

Just copy the files. For example to copy them to a new folder.

libname old 'path to unix datasets';
libname new 'path for Windows datasets';
proc copy inlib=old outlib=new noclone;
run;

Re: Convert UNX SAS Files to Windows

Davanden — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 14:53:15 GMT

I pushed the wrong button. While I'm sure both solutions would have worked, the one that I used was Tom's.

Thanks to both of you.

--Dav