On Wed, 12 Jun 2019 19:05:55 +0000, Farley, Peter x23353wrote: >The records are actually variable length data, up to 200 bytes of actual data >with no length prefix (no RDW/BDW). No binary data, only text characters. I >suspect a *ix text-format file as the vendor source but have no proof of that.
No binary data at all? ASCII or EBCDIC text? Or perhaps Unicode? Or is it text with CR LF or something to delineate the records? If not, how can you tell that the records are up to 200 bytes? Sorry, no answers, just questions. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
