Moving And Accessing SAS 9.1 Files

Overview of the XPORT Engine

The XPORT engine creates files in transport format , which uses an environment-independent standard for character encoding and numeric representation. Transport files that are created by the XPORT engine can be transferred across operating environments and read using the XPORT engine with the DATA step or PROC COPY.

The process for creating a transport file at the source machine and reading it on a target machine follows :

1. A transport file is created at the source machine using the XPORT engine with the DATA step or PROC COPY.

2. The file is transferred from the source machine to the target machine.

3. The transport file is read at the target machine using the XPORT engine with the DATA step or PROC COPY.