The following link will be of use: http://support.sas.com/techsup/technote/ts140.html A SAS XPT or XPORT file is also called a SAS transport file and is a way of moving SAS data and other types of SAS files between SAS installations with different versions and/or different operating systems. It is not normally used to move data between third-party applications and SAS because there are far easier ways to do it, For example ODBC, OLEDB, CSV etc. As the above link suggests trying to reproduce a SAS transport file for a SAS dataset (table) is not straightforward at all. I am curious to know why you have been asked to move data this way. What is the application the data is being sourced from? ... View more