Exporting Other Proprietary Data Formats

You may find that you need to export your SAS data as something other than regular ASCII text or Microsoft Office files. In this case, the export wizards in the SAS windowing environment in SAS 9 and SAS Enterprise Guide 3.0 can easily export the following file formats  

If you have a need to convert SAS data sets to other file formats that SAS cannot handle directly, you might consider using a product such as DBMS/Copy. DBMS/Copy is a software package distributed by the SAS subsidiary Dataflux. See the end of Chapter 3 for the list of databases that DBMS/Copy can create from your SAS data sets. 

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Most in-house systems permit links to other database management software, in particular to relational database systems such as ORACLE, in order to integrate large amounts of textual or numeric data that already exist there with reaction databases. As many of the reaction retrieval systems mentioned here are able to import and export files in MolFile or RxnFile formats (originally proprietary file formats of MDL, later published), or in the SMD format, even exchange of reaction databases between different retrieval systems is often possible. ... 

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