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WORK=

Default:	WORK
Valid in:	configuration file, SAS command
CMS specifics:	library-specification

library-specification

is either a logical name or a physical name. If it is a logical name (no quotes), SAS looks for a FILEDEF for that name and uses the logical name as the WORK library name and the disk mode specified in the FILEDEF as the disk on which the WORK library resides. If it is a physical name (enclosed in quotation marks), then SAS expects it to be in the following form:

'<filetype> filemode | SFS-directory'

where ft is an optional specification of the name of the WORK library, and fm is the disk on which the WORK library resides.

Details

The WORK= option specifies a library name for the SAS data library in which temporary files are stored. The files in the WORK data library are deleted when you end the current SAS session.

See Also

• USER=

• Handling Space in the WORK Library

• SAS Language Reference: Dictionary

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