Ta-da! Thanks all. The below was sufficient. (And as a bonus, it didn't even 
hose up my original PDS!) Thanks all.

//GENER    EXEC PGM=IEBGENER                                  
//SYSUT1   DD   DSN=MY.PDS,DISP=SHR,RECFM=F,DSORG=PS, 
//  LRECL=256,BLKSIZE=256                                     
//SYSUT2   DD   DSN=THE.SAMPLE.PDSDIR,DISP=(NEW,CATLG),    
//  SPACE=(TRK,(1,1)),RECFM=F,LRECL=256,BLKSIZE=256,DSORG=PS  
//SYSPRINT DD   SYSOUT=*                                      
//SYSIN    DD   DUMMY  
                                       
Was good enough to make ISPF edit happy:

****** ***************************** Top 
000001  8$GINCL1                         
       0F5CCDCDF4000000000020002012020200
       08B7953310081F1101198F198F640E0000
-----------------------------------------
000002  ¹GINCLUD4    GP2INCLU    GSAMPLE 
       0DCCDCDECF0020CDFCDCDE0000CECDDDC4
       0A79533444003077295334011072147350
-----------------------------------------

Charles

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2012 6:41 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Anyone know how to copy a PDS directory as a flat file?

Specify LRECL

On Thu, 6 Sep 2012 06:28:42 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:

>I want to make a PS (flat file) copy of the series of 256-byte blocks 
>of a PDS directory. (I want to copy the data to another platform so I 
>can test some code with it more readily.)

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