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From: UPHILG@UNC.BITNET (Philip Gallagher)
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Subject: re:  saving output from TABULATE
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Date: 13 Feb 90 14:04:00 GMT
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  Cindy Cummings SXA00056@BAGAMCOK writes

> Is there any way to receive an output dataset with PROC TABULATE?
> That is, does the OUT= option work?

In passing, thanks to Prof. Bob's forbearance with respect to reading
the manual.

My main point:  the answers to CC's question as phrased that I have read
have been technically correct - i.e., no there is no OUT option or
statement to produce a (SAS) dataset from PROC TABULATE.  I think these
answers may miss the mark, however.  I have not been able to conceive of
any useful meaning to the concept of a SAS dataset to be output from
TABULATE (with the exception of some of the calculated statistics, which
I, at least, would find easier to calculate within a DATAstep).  I
wonder if what CC is asking for is a way to save the formatted output
from PROC TABULATE;  if so, I refer her to PROC PRINTTO.  That has
always worked well for me.

                                Phil Gallagher