Although SAS does not officially support it, EG 7.1 works with a SAS 9.2 backend. We were using it here with SAS 9.2 on AIX before we migrated the server to 9.4. But that's not your problem. Your problem is 9.2, which should really be upgraded to 9.4 three days before yesterday. Really. I mean it.   All that can of course be avoided by simply using a textual format for data transfer, which is the professional way to go here. - data can be inspected with a simple text editor - formats change only when YOU decide it, not when some ***** in Redmond has another brain fart. - CSV is CSV is CSV, for more than three decades now. I can't count how often I had to deal with inconsistencies in Excel files because of: see above   Since you can't instruct EG to do something (read: copying data) from the SAS server side through code, you need to think of another method to get your data to the desktop. The simplest way would be to mount a network share on the SAS server and write your CSV files to that. Desktops can then read from there. A shared network drive also has the advantage that such resources are usually backed up regularly, giving you more data security. If your network/server admins don't want to do that, look into filename sftp to write your result files to a location accessible from your desktop(s). ... View more