Hunt, Bruce wrote: >Thanks again for everyone's help. If anyone cares, here is the assembler program that reads the spanned file and creates a fixed length 136 byte file padded with blanks where necessary. I don't claim to be the best assembler programmer. I hope that worked in my favor in keeping it simple. But I am definitely up for constructive criticism.
Very interesting! Many thanks! >I am including the JCL and 2 more programs (a cobol and a rexx). This is the reason I took so long to get back with this. Sorry if this is too much information. Based on a quick look on your programs, I'm wondering if you can use DFSORT keywords VTOF. You can convert a VB data set to an FB data set with OUTFIL's VTOF and BUILD or OUTREC parameters. Again thanks for sharing your source code. Perhaps a budding programmer can benefit from your wisdom. ;-) Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html