Date:         Mon, 2 Oct 2006 03:54:13 -0400
Reply-To:     Jim Groeneveld <jim2stat@YAHOO.CO.UK>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Jim Groeneveld <jim2stat@YAHOO.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: A Format catalog question
Comments: To: "Subhu. Manyam" <proccontents@GMAIL.COM>

Hi SAS_learner,

The CNTRLIN option, that you referenced in your reply below, actually is
spelled as CNTLIN, I believe. And I don't know what those letters CNTL mean
with this respect. I wouldn't understand why if it ment 'control'. The C
might have to do with Catalog, but the rest?

Regards - Jim.
--
Jim Groeneveld, Netherlands
Statistician, SAS consultant
home.hccnet.nl/jim.groeneveld


On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:29:52 -0500, SAS_learner <proccontents@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

>Do you want to create a dataset out of catalog ( then use cntlout =  )  or
>if want to read a dataset as catalog then use (cntrlin = ) , the basic
>syntax is some thing like this
>
>proc format data = library. name  cntrlout = work. test ;* To create a
>dataset out of catalog ;
>
>proc format cntrlin = test out = library.<name of the catalog > ;
>run;
>
>and to have list file of the format catalog use fmtlib option.
>
>You tend to do this when you have want to move format catalog across the
>Operating systems .
>
>
>On 9/29/06, Rathindronath <mehedisas@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> I never ran or used a format catalog for dataset. Can you please tell me a
>> source where I can learn about it?
>>