https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Conversion-from-SAS-formats-to-XML/m-p/17055#M2425 Please report this to SAS Technical Support. They'll be in the best position to help you. You can send them an email by clicking the "software issues that require SAS action" link at the bottom of this page. Thu, 06 May 2010 16:35:38 GMT Tim_SAS 2010-05-06T16:35:38Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Conversion-from-SAS-formats-to-XML/m-p/17054#M2424 I have written a program for converting SAS formats to XML formatss. It was working fine. Today I was converting some format catalog. Its giving the below error.<BR /> <BR /> ERROR: Read Access Violation In Task [ FORMAT )<BR /> Exception occurred at (67332AD4)<BR /> Task Traceback<BR /> Address Frame (DBGHELP API Version 4.0 rev 5)<BR /> 67332AD4 04C4FF88 sasforma:mcn_main+0x1AD4<BR /> 01572B02 04C4FFA0 sashost:Main+0xBE72<BR /> 01576C20 04C4FFB4 sashost:Main+0xFF90<BR /> 7C80B729 04C4FFEC kernel32:GetModuleFileNameA+0x1BA<BR /> <BR /> <BR /> Does anybody has idea on above error.<BR /> <BR /> <BR /> proc format cntlout=FORMATS fmtlib library=formlib.FORMATS ;<BR /> run<BR /> <BR /> It shows the error right after this step Thu, 06 May 2010 15:32:32 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Conversion-from-SAS-formats-to-XML/m-p/17054#M2424 anandbillava 2010-05-06T15:32:32Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Conversion-from-SAS-formats-to-XML/m-p/17055#M2425 Please report this to SAS Technical Support. They'll be in the best position to help you. You can send them an email by clicking the "software issues that require SAS action" link at the bottom of this page. Thu, 06 May 2010 16:35:38 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Conversion-from-SAS-formats-to-XML/m-p/17055#M2425 Tim_SAS 2010-05-06T16:35:38Z