Usually, SAS/CONNECT assumes that external files that are being uploaded are
text files, and it alters them so that they can be used on the target machine.
Two features are affected.
There are times when these file conversions are not
desirable. For example, you may need to upload executable files from the local
host to the remote host and later download them to the same or a different
local host. You may want to do this for backup purposes or to send files to
other users.
When you do not want a file translated to another character
set or record delimiters inserted, you can use the BINARY option to prevent
automatic conversion. When you specify the BINARY option in a PROC UPLOAD
statement, SAS/CONNECT transfers the file in binary image form
(hence, the keyword BINARY).
This example uses a PROC UPLOAD statement for uploading
an external file to the remote host. Note that the BINARY option is included
to suppress character-set translation and to prevent record-delimiter insertion:
proc upload infile='external-file-name'
outfile=hostmod binary;
run;
This PROC UPLOAD step is excerpted from Example 10. DTS: Distributing an .EXE File from the Remote Host to Multiple Local Hosts.
The next example is a PROC UPLOAD
statement for uploading
a local SAS data set to the remote host:
proc upload data=pcnote.usage out=hostnote.usage;
run;
This PROC UPLOAD step is excerpted from Example 12. DTS: Downloading a Partitioned Data Set from an OS/390 Host.
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