Russ,

The PRINT command is interpreting your file as a NUMBERED file and is
stripping out the line numbers for you. Try  :PRINT KSAM1;NONUM to tell
PRINT not to interpret the data.

Doug.

Doug Werth                             Beechglen Development Inc.
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> So the data is there, but isn't displaying to the terminal.  Does anyone
> have any thoughts as to why the data is not appearing in the display?
There
> is nothing in the file to prevent it.  (See HEX dump above.)  The data
in
> positions 9-16 is accessible by the other program I need to run against
this
> file.  I can use the second key for lookups and can extract it as raw
data
> after a keyed read on the first key.  So the only problem is that the
data
> doesn't appear in a PRINT command, either at a CI prompt or from within
> MPEX.