Hi Krispi, thanks for posting the answer, always good to see people do that.
Can I ask, what versions of SPSS and SAS are you using? I've got users doing the same thing here and having version issues (the version of SPSS they are using doesn't seem to be able to read V9 SAS datasets.)
Cheers
Chris
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