Good idea. I think that is what I'm going to have to do.

Thanks, jeff

>I'm unaware of any setting that would change this behavior. You can run a query that will convert numeric fields to charater and replace zeros with spaces. The result can than be copied to SDF.
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>>I know, I'm trying to find a way to assert the blank without having to do a read on the text file and do a stuff.
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>>I can't think of a different way to do the copy short of transforming each record and writing it.
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