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From: Ya Huang on 1 Feb 2010 23:54
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 17:10:04 -0800, Brian Wallace
<brian_c_wallace(a)YAHOO.COM> wrote:

>Thanks to everyone for their help. I'm a bit thick so if anyone could
assist or share their knowledge I'd greatly appreciate it. Just a few
statements...
>
>Even though the xport/PROC COPY method and PROC CPORT method both create
SAS transport files, they are not the same kind of transport files?
Correct?
>

Right, they are totally different format. Xport format spec is published,
while xcport is SAS proprietary format.

>Also, the only way to view a transport file created by PROC CPORT is by
using PROC IMPORT and viewing in SAS? You can't view it with a SAS
viewer? Correct?
>

Not sure if SAS Universal viewer can open it or not. But definitely not
with SAS system viewer. In other word, you are right.

>Thank you for all of your help,
>
>Brian Wallace
From: Andre Wielki on 2 Feb 2010 03:22
Some precision:
the cport procedure produce a file that only proc Cimport can open
and the sas universal viewer is helpless about.

Andre

Ya Huang a �crit :
>
> Right, they are totally different format. Xport format spec is published,
> while xcport is SAS proprietary format.
>
>

by using PROC IMPORT

> Not sure if SAS Universal viewer can open it or not. But definitely not
> with SAS system viewer. In other word, you are right.
>
>

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From: Gerhard Hellriegel on 2 Feb 2010 07:35
perhaps another word:

XPORT is a engine. That means, you can treat that what's behind like a SAS
library. That's not fully true for sure, because that engine has many
limitations compared to the default library engine, but take it as a
direction.

The CPORT format you can see as analogon to a ZIP or RAR format. You can
only access the data with special tools. For CPORT that tool is CIMPORT
which reverses the changed structure to it's original. There is no other
way, something like any viewer.

Gerhard






On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 09:22:23 +0100, Andre Wielki <wielki(a)INED.FR> wrote:

>Some precision:
>the cport procedure produce a file that only proc Cimport can open
>and the sas universal viewer is helpless about.
>
>Andre
>
>Ya Huang a �crit :
>>
>> Right, they are totally different format. Xport format spec is
published,
>> while xcport is SAS proprietary format.
>>
>>
>
>by using PROC IMPORT
>
>> Not sure if SAS Universal viewer can open it or not. But definitely not
>> with SAS system viewer. In other word, you are right.
>>
>>
>
>--
> Andr� WIELKI
> INED (Institut National d'Etudes D�mographiques)
> Service Informatique
> 133 Boulevard Davout 75980 Paris Cedex 20
> m�l : wielki(a)ined.fr t�l : 33 (0) 1 56 06 21 54
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