Date:         Mon, 19 Jun 2000 10:46:21 -0400
Reply-To:     Edward Heaton <HEATONE@WESTAT.COM>
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From:         Edward Heaton <HEATONE@WESTAT.COM>
Subject:      Re: reading in V6.07 or earlier datasets with V8
Comments: To: "melissa@PHOR.COM" <melissa@PHOR.COM>
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Melissa,
   I recommend neither PROC COPY nor PROC DATASETS.  Why create another copy
of your data?  It will just take up more space and you will have the
prospect of the two data sets getting out of sync.  Instead, use the
appropriate library engine.  E.g.:

      Libname old v6 "path" ;      /* This works for Windows data sets
                                      created under Releases 6.08
                                      through 6.12.                    */
      Libname older v604 "path" ;  /* This works for Windows data sets
                                      created under Releases 6.03 and
                                      6.04.                            */
      Libname new v8 "path" ;

The paths can be the same if you have or want all versions in the same
directory.

Hope this helps,
Ed

Edward Heaton, SAS Senior Statistical Systems Analyst,
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-----Original Message-----
From: melissa [mailto:melissa@PHOR.COM]
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 8:56 AM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: reading in V6.07 or earlier datasets with V8


To all of those using SAS V8 I have a question:

What is the best way that you've found to read in datasets that were
created in SAS V6.07 or earlier into V8?  Currently my company has both
V6.12 and V8 available to us, but sometimes we have to access clientele
datasets that were created in V6.07 or earlier.

Both Proc Copy and Proc Datasets have been proposed as solutions to my
dilemma, but I wasn't given clear examples of how to use them to
accomplish this and I have been unable to figure it out thus far.
Besides figuring out the proper code to use, a big source of confusion
for me has been if I run the code in V6.12 or V8. If anyone could offer
any insight I'd appreciate it very much.

Thank you in advance for your help,
Melissa Gaiser