>Can you post the first couple of hundred bytes of one of what you think is a data file so we can see what the header is (if any)?

I could but it is private information, i.e., names, social security numbers, etc., so I cannot. I will put in a few bites previous to the name:

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There seem to be 9 characters preceding each record, before each name. There seem to be 112 characters per record. I think this is a homemade file.