/* This program pipes in the sas cport file and creates a sas dataset
   in the format appropriate to the host operating system.
   The new file will be written to the directory specified in newdata 
   and the size will be about 300 MB if compress = 'no' and 60 MB if
   compress= 'yes'.
   Jean Roth  January 4, 2001                                          */                
options compress = yes;
/* If converting to another format, you may want to select compress = 'no'.
   Compressed files are about 1/10th the size of uncompressed files   */
libname newdata  '/home/data/cpe_census/';
filename olddata pipe  'zcat /home/data/cpe_census/cen.cport.Z';

proc cimport data=newdata.cen infile=olddata;