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Unix Tip: Reading and Writing with File Descriptors

Have you ever wanted to read a file one line at a time in a shell script and found the task to be a lot more trouble than you ever imagined? If you use a “for line ...
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SAS/ACCESS Descriptor Files

SAS/ACCESS software uses SAS/ACCESS descriptor files to establish a connection between the SAS System and ADABAS. You create these files with the ACCESS procedure. There are two types of SAS/ACCESS ...
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ACCESS Procedure: Creating and Using Descriptor Files

An access descriptor only describes a DBMS table's format and contents to SAS software; that is, it is a master file of the table's information for SAS software. You cannot use an access descriptor in ...
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Unix Tip: Reading and Writing with File Descriptors, Part 2

Last week’s column looked at how we can read from and write to files by associated the files with user-defined file descriptors. This week, we take this idea a bit further. Closing File Descriptors In ...