David Gayle wrote:

>It would appear that the number is part of the data and is being
interpreted
>as a line number. In this case, you can Text the file UNN (sorry, I'm a
>QEDIT user).
<<snip>>
>You will need to re-build the file with 73 character records and use the
>TEXT UNNUMBERED feature in the future.

You hit it on the head.  Thank you.

FYI, doing a PRINT MYFILE;UNN does not print the entire contents of the
file.  Fortunately, the pgm which reads this as input sees the data as data
and not as line numbers.  Thank you.