Moving And Accessing SAS 9.1 Files
Overview
The following strategies in Base SAS are available for moving and accessing SAS files between operating environments that run different releases of SAS:
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Cross-Environment Data Access (CEDA)
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CPORT and CIMPORT procedures
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XPORT engine with the DATA step or the COPY procedure
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XML engine with the DATA step or the COPY procedure.
| Note | This section describes the features that are new to the topic of moving SAS files since SAS 8.2. Using SAS CONNECT and SAS/SHARE to move or access SAS files are discussed in the SAS/CONNECT User's Guide and the SAS/SHARE User's Guide . |