You can use SAS 9 for Windows to directly read a file that is created by SAS 9 for UNIX. Beginning with SAS 7 and later, you can read SAS data sets without converting them between UNIX and Windows. A translation is done behind the scenes, so you could experience performance delays. Also, you will not have update access, and indexes are not supported. If you cannot live with these restrictions, you should create a SAS 9 Windows file from the UNIX file.

PROC COPY with the NOCLONE option copies the UNIX data file to the native Windows format and removes the restrictions of a foreign file. For example:

libname old 'path';
libname new 'path';

proc copy noclone in=old out=new;
   select unix-dsname;   /* one-level name */
run;

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