Transport Files Coming from VMS Systems
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Sometimes, transport files are made in VMS with the wrong
kind of carriage-control/line-feeds at the end of each
line.  These SAS Transport Files must be made with certain
characteristics (including a Logical Record Length of 80),
and the wrong kind of linefeeds will make the files 
unreadable on other systems (such as UNIX).  Basically,
the 'carriage attribute' must be 'none' for such a file.

If the person creating the Transport File on the VMS system
has SAS Release 6.08 TS405 or higher, the transport file
should be created with PROC COPY and the following LIBNAME
statement (lower-case words are user's choice):

  LIBNAME  libref  XPORT  'file.name'  CC=NONE;

If the person creating the Transport File on the VMS system
has an earlier version of SAS, then VMS can be made to strip
away the unwanted characters.  Put the following lines into
a file called 'remcc.fdl'

  record
  block_span  yes
  carriage_control  none
  format  fixed
  size  80

and then run the following VMS commands from the $ prompt:

  $ convert/fdl=remcc.fdl  oldfile.dat  newfile.dat
  $ dir/full newfile.dat


Note that these operations have not been tested by UCS.
We do not support SAS under VAX.  These instructions came
directly from SAS Institute.

Users with problems in the area of VAX transport files
being used on UCS-supported systems should call UCS
consulting at 213/740-5555 (LVL Lower Commons and Leavey Commons).