Every independent collection of data on a disk is a "file," such as a word procesing document, spreadsheet, database, image or video. An executable program, program shortcut and an icon are also ...

The physical name is specified so that the external file is recognized by the operating environment. The FILENAME statement associates a SAS fileref (a file reference name) with a filespec (a ...

In interactive mode, if you issue a FILENAME statement or function or attempt to allocate a file with the FNAME window for a file that does not exist, and if you do not specify DISP=NEW, and if the ...