Format
Statistical Analysis System Catalog (Unix)
Summary
- Name
- Statistical Analysis System Catalog (Unix)
- Version
- 9.1
- Identifiers
- PUID: fmt/606
- Format type
- Dataset
- Description
- SAS (Statistical Analysis System) is a statistical analysis software suite developed by SAS Institute. SAS catalogs store many different kinds of information in smaller units called catalog entries. Each entry has an entry type that identifies its purpose to SAS. A single SAS catalog can contain several types of catalog entries.
- File extensions
-
sas7bcat,sc7 - Submitted by
- Tessella / Tessella
Relationships
- Has priority over
Internal signatures
SAS Catalog (Unix) 9.1
- Description
- BOF: 32 byte binary magic {7} 0x31 = Unix {116} 'CATALOG' {53-61} '9.01'. Signature based extensively on unofficial description of DATA format, plus a wide variety of format samples: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/sas7bdat/vignettes/sas7bdat.pdf
- Provenance
- Research and signatures provided by Tessella.
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
000000000000000000000000C2EA8163B31411CFBD92080009C7318C181F1011{7}31{116}434154414C4F47{53-61}392E3031- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
V90
- Release date
- 30 March 2017
-
Updated
Statistical Analysis System Catalog (Windows) 9.1: Changed spelling of 'catalog' from 'catalogue' for consistency with terminology of the software and documentation. Simplified signature. Gave priority over fmt/1024. Added description.
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V74
- Release date
- 31 March 2014
-
Updated
Statistical Analysis System Catalogue (Unix) 9.1: Improved specificity of BOF signature sequence offset.
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V72
- Release date
- 12 November 2013
-
Added format
Statistical Analysis System Catalogue (Unix) 9.1: Outline Entry Added. Submitted by Tessella.
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Added signature
Statistical Analysis System Catalogue (Unix) 9.1: Signature developed by Tessella.