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Date:   Fri, 25 Jan 2002 16:01:54 -0800
Reply-To:   "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Sender:   "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:   "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Subject:   Re: reading zipped AIX UNIX files in sas
In-Reply-To:   <sc519151.046@dhss.state.mo.us>; from SchifF@DHSS.STATE.MO.US on Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 05:09:14PM -0600
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on Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 05:09 PM -0600, Frank Schiffel (SchifF@DHSS.STATE.MO.US) wrote: > I don't think you can open a Unix zipped file (say data1993.ssd01.Z) > within SAS, read it to a temporary file, close the zipped one. this > would be batch processing on UNIX large 600k - 2Mb lines of data with > a few hundred parameters.

There is a solution, using compressed LIBNAME references, included in the tech notes section of the SI website. I've posted the reference myself to this list multiple times, Google for it.

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