Copy any file using binary input / output streams. More...

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Detailed Description

Reads in a file byte by byte and writes it back out. Is an os-independent method to copy files. In case of naming collision, the default filerefs can be modified. Based on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13046116/using-sas-to-copy-a-text-file

%mp_binarycopy(inloc="/home/me/blah.txt", outref=_webout)

Parameters

inloc	full, quoted "path/and/filename.ext" of the object to be copied
outloc	full, quoted "path/and/filename.ext" of object to be created
inref	can override default input fileref to avoid naming clash
outref	an override default output fileref to avoid naming clash

Returns

nothing

Version

9.2

Definition in file mp_binarycopy.sas.