Recently I met an issue about moving formats.catalog from WINDOWs SAS9.2 32-bit to UNIX SAS9.2 32-bit. I created a sas dataset with customized formats using proc format in windows sas, then I want to transfer them to the sas in unix server. In addition to the methods cport/cimport, save the formats into a dataset, I also noticed that proc upload can upload both dataset and formats.catalog from windows to unix from many papers. Then I tried to use "proc upload" method and the dataset and formats.catalog can be moved to unix server successfully. But the catalog cannot be opened due to the error message "file formats.catalog was created for a different operating system". It seems that proc upload cannot transfer customized formats between different operating systems, so why there are so many papers introduced this method to transfer catalogs? Could someone give me some confirmation or suggestions? Thanks!
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