The TERMSTR option on the FILENAME/INFILE statement was first documented in SAS 9.1.

However, it did not work correctly until SAS 9.2.

Regardless of the setting of TERMSTR on any platform, the default for that platform is used to read the file specified.

    CRLF (Carriage Return Line Feed) for PC platforms

    LF   (Line Feed) for UNIX platforms.

The default functionality cannot be overridden prior to SAS 9.2.

Operating System and Release Information

Product Family	Product	System	SAS Release
			Reported	Fixed*
SAS System	Base SAS	Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems	9.1 TS1M3	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition	9.1 TS1M3	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition	9.1 TS1M3	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition	9.1 TS1M3	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server	9.1 TS1M3
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server	9.1 TS1M3
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Server	9.1 TS1M3
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional	9.1 TS1M3
		Microsoft Windows NT Workstation	9.1 TS1M3
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition	9.1 TS1M3	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition	9.1 TS1M3	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition	9.1 TS1M3	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2008	9.1 TS1M3	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows XP Professional	9.1 TS1M3	9.2 TS2M0
		Windows Vista	9.1 TS1M3	9.2 TS2M0
		64-bit Enabled AIX	9.1 TS1M3	9.2 TS2M0
		64-bit Enabled HP-UX	9.1 TS1M3	9.2 TS2M0
		64-bit Enabled Solaris	9.1 TS1M3	9.2 TS2M0
		HP-UX IPF	9.1 TS1M3	9.2 TS2M0
		Linux	9.1 TS1M3	9.2 TS2M0
		OpenVMS Alpha	9.1 TS1M3	9.2 TS2M0
		Tru64 UNIX	9.1 TS1M3	9.2 TS2M0

* For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be fixed.

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TERMSTR option on the INFILE statement does not work as documented prior to 9.2

Type:	Problem Note
Priority:	medium

Date Modified:	2009-09-16 11:45:05
Date Created:	2009-09-11 18:57:14