topic Re: Exporting a file to a different directory in SAS Programming

Exporting a file to a different directory

jplarios — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:11:16 GMT

I was using FILENAME FTP in UNIX in order to ftp a PDF file and when opening the file in the receiving end I got a message that the PDF could not open because it was not correctly decoded. Here's the code that I use to FTP:

filename pdffile '/dir/data/apdffile.pdf';

filename create ftp '/somewhere/data2/final.pdf'
host=MACHINE
user='me'
pass='pw';

data _null_;
infile pdffile;
input;
file create;

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Re: Exporting a file to a different directory

Cynthia_sas — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:41:22 GMT

Hi:
You may want to check with Tech Support. I thought that PDF files (at least the ones created with ODS) needed to be FTP'd as binary files. I think there's an FTP option for that.
http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrdict/62618/HTML/default/a000178980.htm#a002503695

cynthia

Re: Exporting a file to a different directory

sbb — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:42:45 GMT

Suggest reviewing SAS FILENAME FTP DOC with focus on binary transfers.

Scott Barry
SBBWorks, Inc.

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Re: Exporting a file to a different directory

jplarios — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:37:36 GMT

Thanks Cynthia and ssb!

jp