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SAS vs. WINDOWS (WIN) file names
Keep straight which is which. How do you point to a file in SAS and how do you point to a file in WIN?
Note that the way you refer to a file in SAS is:
libref.fileref
but this is not the way the WIN sees it.

WIN thinks of files as:

In the example above, the SAS data set:

	LIBRARY.SURVEY1

is saved on disk with the "real" name:

	/bios524/classlib/survey1.sd7

Think of it as LIBRARY being a "nickname" for path to the directory:

	/bios524/classlib/

the SAS data set name is the same as the WIN file name:

	survey1

the UNIX extension tells SAS that this is a SAS data set (there are other kinds of SAS files):

	.sd7

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