Hi Glenn,
Thanks for that excellent comparison.
I missed the record length issue because I used Editor to create the test
files in the first place, and that defaulted to 72 byte records.

Fred Metcalf
Neil Harvey & Associates
HP 3000 Select Solution Reseller
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-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Cole [HP.COM]
>>snip
In *both* editors, setting the left margin back to 1 is not enough,
since the length (which was bumped up to 26 when the left margin was
set past the record length) is still at 26.  Keeping the file at this
point results in (surprise) 26-byte records.  Fortunately, both editors
realized that the record length was being extended, so setting the
length to 35 is sufficient.