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Using SAS Files

How SAS Assigns an Engine When No Engine Is Specified


Advantage to Assigning an Engine

It is always more efficient to explicitly specify the engine name than to ask SAS to determine which engine to use. To assign an engine name, you can use any of the following:


Rules SAS Uses to Determine Engine When No Engine Is Specified

If you do not assign an engine name, SAS looks at the OpenVMS file types of the files that exist in the specified directory and uses the following rules to determine which engine to assign:

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