Date:         Fri, 6 Jun 2003 18:19:30 +0100
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From:         SAS User <sasuser@GUILDENSTERN.DYNDNS.ORG>
Subject:      Re: x command and ftp datasets back and forth from host and
              target unix station in batch mode
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on Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 10:15:48AM -0700, Michelle Joe (lvmzhou2002@YAHOO.COM) wrote:
> HI,
>
> I want to accomplish the following steps in one SAS program to run in
> batch mode.
>
> 1) create a dataset on tartget unix platform
> 2) automatically ftp it to the target unix platform
> 3) execute a unix command on the targe platform that can generate a
> new dataset based on the input dataset
> 4) automatically ftp the created file back to the host platform upon
> completion
> 5) continue SAS operations on the newly generated file
>
> I used the following x command but it didn't work.

How doesn't it work?

    http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html
    http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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