Hi Rich & Gordon :) Rich is right (but then he usually is; except when it comes to Iguanas in Professor's offices! hehehe) I think you can download the file to a PC and manually massage it into a usable format??? Or maybe convert it using a program on the pc that reads the data? I can't remember how I did this at my last gig... I know I print out the contents of a couple of these files when I was at my last job... Maybe Art Frank can find my notes on how I did this when I was there? You out there Art? Art "having a Dilbert Monday!" Bahrs Gordon, Ah flashback to Basic/3000 days. As I recall this was the filecode for "Basic Saved Data" file. Do you happen to have the source for the program which creates this? You may have to write a quick Basic/3000 program to read it and output it as ASCII; Was it possibly created by the editor called....(help me out here folks...). Whatever it was called, it was written in Basic/3000 and used tags like ".bold". Oh well... They say the mind is one of the first things to go.... Either way, I don't think it's in EBCDIC format. It's ASCII (and or Binary), but the layout depends on the program which created it. Is there a program which uses this file? Can you tell us about it? Rat _______________________________________________________________________ Rich Trapp "RAT" Managed Business Solutions [log in to unmask] http://www.mbsnav.com Assigned to: TMO Design Automation Support at HP Loveland, CO (Telnet) or (970) 679-2221 [log in to unmask] _______________________________________________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Friday, February 05, 1999 12:50 PM To: [log in to unmask] Cc: [log in to unmask] Subject: Basic data files Hi Everyone! I have a question for you - Can anyone help me in converting a BASD file? The file is called "test at 383W 1 record per block a total of 2171 records" I need to convert this to ascii so that I can download to a PC. First, IS this possible or do you have to do some things to a BASD file first? I am completely ignorant when it comes to Basic so any help is extremely appreciated. I tried a fcopy with a ebcdicin but the data didn't look like it was converted. Thanks for all the help! Gordon Wong