[Info-vax] SAS software for VAX/VMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/4/2020 3:13 AM, Gregory Reut wrote:
> I need to read a bunch of SAS v5 data files which came from a VAX.
> (These are clinical research data from the end of 80ies.) As far as I
> understand, I would need either SAS software v5 for VAX/VMS, of SAS
> v8 with v5 engine engine to read those files: 
> https://v8doc.sas.com/sashtml/vms/z0248600.htm SAS themselves
> couldn't help with either VAX/VMS version or with v5 engine.
> 
> Hence two questions: - would anybody have by any chance v5 software
> or engine? - perhpas there is another/better way to read the data?

SAS V5 used a pretty simple data format.

25 years ago I wrote some C code that could directly read data set
and display on web.

I have not used that code for like 20 years. And It was only tested
on very simple data sets.

But you could take a look.

https://www.vajhoej.dk/arne/info-vax/cgi/sas.zip

Arne