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SAS Companion for UNIX Environments

Introduction

When Version 6 of the SAS System was released, most UNIX systems placed a two-gigabyte limit on the size of files. SAS provided features that allowed you to partition a data set into multiple smaller UNIX files, thereby creating a data set larger than 2G. Most UNIX vendors have now removed the 2G file limit; therefore, partitioned data sets are not supported in Version 7 or Version 8 of the SAS System. However, you can use the glue utility to recombine all of the partitions of a data set, and then you can use the resulting large data set in your applications.

CAUTION:: The glue utility is experimental. This utility is not supported by SAS Institute Technical Support and might be removed from future releases of the SAS System.

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