To read in a SAS dataset created somewhere other here at MIT, use the SAS procedure COPY with the engine XPORT. (An engine is the mechanism which SAS uses to read in a data set and is used in the libname statement to assign a libref; the default engine on Athena is v607.) For example, to read in a dataset in a file called hgtwgt: libname tref xport '/mit/joeuser/sasuser/hgtwgt'; libname outref v607 '/mit/joeuser/sasuser/'; proc copy in=tref out=outref; run; After running this, you will have a file called hgtwght.ssd01 if you are on an RS/6000, or hgtwght.ssd02 on a DECstation.