will xport convert Cport files to csv?

selik / xport

Python reader and writer for SAS XPORT data transport files.

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will xport convert Cport files to csv? #103

Closed telljmc closed 1 year ago

telljmc commented 1 year ago

I have what I believe are some Cport files. I need to convert them to csv. Based on the documentation I anticipated that xport would enable me to do that. I tried "loading" them by following your examples. However, I receive the following error message, "Document does not match SAS Version 5 or 6 Transport (XPORT) format". I have attached one of the files. Am I mistaken as to the format? or xport's ability to convert them? C2214O5P.zip

selik commented 1 year ago

Unfortunately, CPORT is not only proprietary, but completely closed. There's no public information about how the file format works. If we had a few Rosetta stone documents, we might be able to reverse engineer it, but it'd be non-trivial.

selik commented 1 year ago

Closing as a duplicate of #6