| SAS Companion for UNIX Environments |
- The following functions are
new:
- DINFO
- returns information about a directory.
- DOPTNAME
- returns directory-attribute information.
- DOPTNUM
- returns the number of information items
that are available for a directory.
- FDELETE
- deletes an external file.
- FEXIST
- verifies the existence of an external file
by its fileref and returns a value.
- FILEEXIST
- verifies the existence of an external file
by its physical name and returns a value.
- FILENAME
- assigns or deassigns a fileref for an external
file, directory, or output device and returns a value.
- FILEREF
- verifies that a fileref has been assigned
for the current SAS session and returns a value.
- FINFO
- returns the value of a file information
item.
- FOPTNAME
- returns the name of an item of information
about a file.
- FOPTNUM
- returns the number of information items
available about a file.
- LIBNAME
- assigns or deassigns a libref for a SAS
data library and returns a value.
- MOPEN
- opens a file by directory ID and by member
name and returns either the file identifier or a zero (0).
- PATHNAME
- returns the physical name of a SAS data
library or of an external file or returns a blank.
- The following function and CALL routine are now
obsolete:
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