Example 1:

The transport file was made on the originating machine with PROC COPY or a DATA step with the XPORT engine, PROC COPY with the SASV5XPT engine on PC Release 6.03/6.04 or PROC XCOPY. The libref TRANS points to the transport file and specifies that the XPORT engine be used to access that file. PROC COPY copies all the SAS data sets from the transport file to the directory referenced by the libref SASDATA. To limit which SAS data sets are copied, you can use either the SELECT or EXCLUDE statement of PROC COPY.

   libname sasdata '/u/userid/mydir';
   libname trans xport '/u/userid/tranfile.dat';
   proc copy in=trans out=sasdata;
   run;

Example 2:

If the transport file was created by PROC CPORT on the originating machine, you need to use PROC CIMPORT to process the transport file. In this example, we are assuming that you are moving files from a lower to a higher release. PROC CIMPORT uses the file given on the INFILE= option as input and writes/unpacks/copies all data sets found in the transport file to the directory referenced by the libref SASFILES.

   libname sasfiles '/u/userid/mydir';
   proc cimport infile='/u/userid/cportfile.dat' library=sasfiles;
   run;

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