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Quartz | Level 8

Quartz | Level 8

externally allocated

Posted 02-10-2021 11:28 AM (689 views)

What is an externally allocated libref?

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Diamond | Level 26

Diamond | Level 26

Re: externally allocated

Posted 02-10-2021 11:34 AM (680 views) | In reply to edasdfasdfasdfa

https://documentation.sas.com/?cdcId=pgmsascdc&cdcVersion=9.4_3.5&docsetId=hosto390&docsetTarget=n03...

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Paige Miller

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Re: externally allocated

Posted 02-10-2021 12:10 PM (664 views) | In reply to edasdfasdfasdfa

In UNIX, you can do something similar by setting an environment variable to the name of an existing directory:

mkdir /tmp/saslib
export SASREF=/tmp/saslib
/sas/install/SASFoundation/9.4/sas

In the SAS session, library SASREF will be available without executing an extra LIBNAME statement.

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