The GDEVICE Procedure

COPY Statement

Copies a device entry and places the copy in the current catalog. The original device entry can be either in the current catalog or in a different catalog.

Requirements:	You must have write access to the catalog where the device entry is being copied.
Restriction:	Not valid in browse mode.
See also:	Creating or Modifying Device Entries
Featured in:	Creating a Custom Device Entry with Program Statements

COPY device-entry where;

Where where must be one or both of these options:

	FROM=<libref.>SAS catalog
	NEWNAME=new-device-entry

Required Arguments

device-entry

specifies the one-level name of the device entry to copy.

Restriction:

The entry must exist in the current catalog (the default) or the catalog specified by FROM= argument.

FROM=<libref.>SAS catalog

names the catalog from which to copy device-entry.

NEWNAME=new-device-entry

specifies a name for the copy of the device entry that is placed in the current catalog. New-device-entry must be a valid name for a SAS catalog entry and cannot already exist in the current catalog.

If you copy device entries across catalogs and you do not specify a new name, the GDEVICE procedure uses the original name for the new device entry.

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