Date:         Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:18:09 +0100
Reply-To:     Andre Wielki <wielki@INED.FR>
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From:         Andre Wielki <wielki@INED.FR>
Subject:      Re: convert SPSS to SAS
Comments: To: darren Brust <darrenbrust@GMAIL.COM>
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Darren
see inyour work
normaly you have a format catalog

then
to open your newfilename sas table (probably no more in the work) you
must before  submit this

options fmtsearch=(work.formats);

did this solve your problem
or was this message a message of proc import?
Andre

darren Brust a écrit :
> I used the following code to convert SPSS file to SAS dataset
>
> PROC IMPORT DATAFILE='temp.sav'
> OUT=work.newfilename
> DBMS=SAV replace;
> RUN;
>
> but I cannot get the formats loaded.
>
> the error message: 'ERROR: The format D27B was not found or could not be
> loaded.'
>
> please help!
>
>

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