https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/externally-allocated/m-p/718307#M222278 <P><A href="https://documentation.sas.com/?cdcId=pgmsascdc&amp;cdcVersion=9.4_3.5&amp;docsetId=hosto390&amp;docsetTarget=n03xehosq1kmbon11kh4bywr79e2.htm&amp;locale=en#n07u9wwa4f76a7n1ebfs83tr5eq3">https://documentation.sas.com/?cdcId=pgmsascdc&amp;cdcVersion=9.4_3.5&amp;docsetId=hosto390&amp;docsetTarget=n03xehosq1kmbon11kh4bywr79e2.htm&amp;locale=en#n07u9wwa4f76a7n1ebfs83tr5eq3</A></P> Wed, 10 Feb 2021 16:34:55 GMT PaigeMiller 2021-02-10T16:34:55Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/externally-allocated/m-p/718297#M222271 <P>What is an&nbsp;externally allocated libref?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 10 Feb 2021 16:28:19 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/externally-allocated/m-p/718297#M222271 edasdfasdfasdfa 2021-02-10T16:28:19Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/externally-allocated/m-p/718307#M222278 <P><A href="https://documentation.sas.com/?cdcId=pgmsascdc&amp;cdcVersion=9.4_3.5&amp;docsetId=hosto390&amp;docsetTarget=n03xehosq1kmbon11kh4bywr79e2.htm&amp;locale=en#n07u9wwa4f76a7n1ebfs83tr5eq3">https://documentation.sas.com/?cdcId=pgmsascdc&amp;cdcVersion=9.4_3.5&amp;docsetId=hosto390&amp;docsetTarget=n03xehosq1kmbon11kh4bywr79e2.htm&amp;locale=en#n07u9wwa4f76a7n1ebfs83tr5eq3</A></P> Wed, 10 Feb 2021 16:34:55 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/externally-allocated/m-p/718307#M222278 PaigeMiller 2021-02-10T16:34:55Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/externally-allocated/m-p/718314#M222283 <P>In UNIX, you can do something similar by setting an environment variable to the name of an existing directory:</P> <PRE>mkdir /tmp/saslib export SASREF=/tmp/saslib /sas/install/SASFoundation/9.4/sas</PRE> <P>In the SAS session, library SASREF will be available without executing an extra LIBNAME statement.</P> Wed, 10 Feb 2021 17:10:03 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/externally-allocated/m-p/718314#M222283 Kurt_Bremser 2021-02-10T17:10:03Z