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. [log in to unmask] Cincinnati, Ohio <snip> > 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.