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- From: hilda@WILPAT.WILPATERSON.EDU (HILDA SPAGNA)
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- Subject: PROBLEM SOLVED SAS TAPE READ SLOW
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- Date: 16 Dec 92 13:23:46 GMT
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- This mail was not delivered, so I am sending it again:
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- SOLUTION TO TAPE READ PROBLEM
- Regarding VAX SAS TAPE READ UNBELIEVABLY SLOW:
- In 5.18 a SAS program used "PUT" statements to create FIXED format records
- on DISK. Later, after user verified data, DCL copied disk to tape, a SAS
- step read the tape and printed it. THE RECFM WAS F. NO problem.
- The problem arose when we went to SAS 6.07 and VAX 5.5-1.
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- Now, the records are still created FIXED(as required by the state
- agency to which the tape is going) but I have changed the
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- SAS INFILE statement to include RECFM=D in the SAS read and print program,
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- as suggested by JOE at the University of Oregon. Thanks, Joe. It works
- in a flash! (the way it did before this problem)
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