Notes on Viewing and Downloading
Files
We do not recommend viewing
public use data files in ASCII format. To view SAS programming
statements in ASCII format, left-click on the file link. To
download an ASCII file while using
Internet Explorer or Netscape®, right-click to bring up
a menu and then
left-click on "Save Target As" or "Save Link As" to bring up
the "Save As" window.
To view and print PDF files, you need Adobe® Acrobat® Reader™,
a free software
program you can download from the Adobe®
Web site. To download a PDF file, right-click on the file to bring
up a
menu,
then
left-click
on "Save Target As" or "Save Link As" to bring up the "Save As" window.
To view an HTML file, left-click on the file link.
To download an HTML file while using
Internet Explorer or Netscape®, right-click to bring up a menu
and then left-click on "Save Target As" or "Save Link As" to bring up
the "Save As" window.
We do not recommend viewing SAS transport files. To download
a SAS transport file while using Internet Explorer or Netscape®,
right-click
to bring up a menu and then left-click
on "Save Target As" or "Save Link As" to bring up the "Save As" window.
We do not recommend viewing zipped files or self-extracting files.
Downloading data files in the compressed format (designated by
the extension
.zip
or .exe) will significantly
reduce download times. To uncompress and download, while using
either Internet Explorer or Netscape®, right-click to bring
up a menu. Then, left -click on "Save Target As" or "Save Link
As," which will bring up the "Save As" window, and follow
the directions of your zip file utility to download the file.
Compressed files greatly
reduce download times. Files in zipped format can
be uncompressed using a zip utility (see below). Files in self-extracting
format have Windows® zip utility software built in; the data
may be uncompressed by running (i.e., double-clicking) the downloaded
executable.
If you
do not have a zip file utility already installed on your computer,
there are many vendors on the Internet who can provide zip file
format utilities for Windows®, Mac®, Linux, and Unix.
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