Writes the contents of the current window to an external file.
| Windows specifics: | valid options |
specifies a valid Windows external file specification, such as a fileref, a file shortcut, a Windows filename that is enclosed in quotation marks, an environment variable, or an unquoted filename that resides in the current directory.
specifies the encoding to use when writing to the output file. The value for ENCODING= indicates that the output file has a different encoding from the current session encoding.
specifies one or more portable options, which are documented under the FILE command in SAS Help and Documentation.
specifies the number of bytes that are physically read or written in an I/O operation. The default is 8192. The maximum is 1 megabyte.
is used in the context of I/O operations on variable record format files. When this option is specified, any occurrence of ^Z is interpreted as character data and not as an end-of-file marker.
specifies the record length (in bytes). Under Windows, the default is 32767. The value of record-length can range from 1 to 1,073,741,823 ( 1 gigabyte).
controls the record format. Under Windows, the following values are valid:
| F | indicates fixed format. |
| N | indicates binary format and causes the file to be treated as a byte stream. If LRECL is not specified, by default SAS reads 32767 bytes at a time from the file. |
| P | indicates print format. |
| S370V | indicates the variable S370 record format (V). |
| S370VB | indicates the variable block S370 record format (VB). |
| S370VBS | indicates the variable block with spanned records S370 record format (VBS). |
| V|D | indicates variable format. This is the default. |