The program in question reads an established list of Excel spreadsheets residing in a Linux directory.  The purpose of this step in the program is to pass a refined set of those file names to another location in Linux and then read them in, one at a time, for processing.  I have tried the following using DATA _NULL_;FILE...;PUT...;  It has not mattered if I allocate that file like /dir1/dir2/dir3/tempdir ro /dir1/dir2/dir3/tempdir/tempfile.dat.  If I use just the directory (temdir) SAS says it has written the files but there is nothing in the directory.  When I use the .dat approach, it does full that file but will not read it in proc import.  Any ideas? ... View more