topic Re: delete file, assigned throug FTP engine in SAS Programming

delete file, assigned throug FTP engine

SAS_user — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:44:31 GMT

Hello,

My program use file, which is assigned as FTP (filename fntemp FTP 'test.txt' ... ; ).
After i process this file, I want to delete it.
When i use these statements:
%let rc = %sysfunc(fdelete(fntemp));

I get sysmsg.
%let msg = %sysfunc(sysmsg());
%put &msg;
ERROR: Requested function is not supported.

Is there any other ways supported by SAS, which i can use?

Thank you. Message was edited by: SAS user

Re: delete file, assigned throug FTP engine

darrylovia — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:19:16 GMT

Dear SASUser
more details please

are you using enterprise guide? or plain old SAS?

D

Re: delete file, assigned throug FTP engine

SAS_user — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:36:10 GMT

I do not know, how this info will be useful to you.

I think function fdelete works the same way in enterpriceGuide and SAS.
cause datastep functions are treated the same way in these products.

I'm using SAS 9.1.

Re: delete file, assigned throug FTP engine

sbb — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:43:46 GMT

Explore using the FILENAME PIPE access method - details are available in the SAS Companion documentation for the "target system" OS.

Scott Barry
SBBWorks, Inc.

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