Date:         Tue, 13 Aug 2002 11:17:38 -0500
Reply-To:     Henry Feldman <hfeldman@CONCEPTUAL.COM>
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From:         Henry Feldman <hfeldman@CONCEPTUAL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Converting a SAS/XPORT data set to a text file w/o SAS
Comments: To: Jim Prucha <jprucha@MOLECULAR.COM>
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At 07:15 AM 8/13/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>      You can probably tell that yes I am a newbie to SAS.  My question
>is that a client is giving us a SAS/XPORT file and I need to convert
>this to a text (comma or tab delimited) file.  I would like to be able
>to do this with some type of script or executable.  Is there a way to
>do this without having the SAS software?  If not what would be the
>best software from SAS (most inexpensive way) to do this.
>
>Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated.

DBMS/COPY can do this without SAS.    http://www.conceptual.com/

There is a demo available.

Henry