Thanks, but I can do it the way I have been, I was just hoping for a simpler solution. It seems odd to me that SAS cannot detect and handle these files automatically but that appears to be the case.
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No, we don't have SAS/Connect. I found several articles indicating what I was hoping for is impossible, so this topic might as well be closed. Thanks to all for the responses,
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SASKiwi, that's essentially what I have been doing. I was hoping there was a one-step method. It seems odd that these cannot simply be opened but it sounds like that's the case.
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I apologize, it appears I have not been clear. These sas7bcat format files are delivered to me without code or other documentation. The original programmers are long gone, and there is no one with access to their work. The people delivering them know nothing about their creation and there is no one to contact to get more information. So, the alternatives that require doing something different in creation of the formats are simply not possible.
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I don't know the answers to any of those things. I run SAS on a big linux server. Fairly regularly, someone delivers data with a sas7bcat formats file. Linux SAS won't open it. I'm looking for a simple solution to using it. I can get onto a PC-SAS machine and convert it, but am hoping there is a trick to skip that step.
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