When a record is deleted from a KSAMXL file how does the file system flag this record as being (logically) deleted? -- low-values in the 1st two bytes of the record, asterisks....?? Inquiring minds want to know... TIA, Brian Donaldson. * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *