The XPORT engine creates files in transport
format, which uses an environment independent standard for character
encoding and numeric representation. Transport files that are created
by the XPORT engine can be transferred across operating environments
and read using the XPORT engine with the DATA step or PROC COPY.
Here is the process
for creating a transport file at the source computer and reading it
on a target computer:
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A transport file is
created at the source computer using the XPORT engine with the DATA
step or PROC COPY.
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The file is transferred
from the source computer to the target computer.
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The transport file is
read at the target computer using the XPORT engine with the DATA step
or PROC COPY.
Note: Transport files that are
created using PROC CPORT are not interchangeable with transport files
that are created using the XPORT engine.