Thanks art297, in thre days of exploring it, viewtable and fsview: It looks like that you can get everything using both procedures, not only one. For example: column description (format/informat) of variables and switch between column labels/column names only is posssible with viewtable. and : point out the number of observation you are interested of, for example selected the record 3456, in a dataset of 60000 observations, is only possible with fsview. Anyway, thanks for your help. I got all the necesssary information that I need to know. to be honest, i am going to use fsview, looks like more powerful and flexible. J.
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