>>>>Then it sounds like you are looking at a indexed Cobol File. What you need to do is to write a quick COBOL program that essentially reads in the file and writes it right back out sequentially. Then download THAT file to your network and append into the Fox.
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>>>>In between the read and write, you might want to slide the line "INSPECT record REPLACING HIGH VALUES WITH SPACES"
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>>>>That will convert anything that is truly 'garbage' into spaces.
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>>>The problem is there are more then 40 files..
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>>>If I will go on writing for each one, it will take me lot of time..
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>>>Additionally I did cobol years back and I'm not so good in it...
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>>>Any Other ideas...
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>>Well, being a network person and having to deal with a lot of UNISYS COBOL files, I created a program that is as generic as possible, but you will still have to change the SELECT section to for each file. Here at the TDH, we are in the process of conversion of our mainframe systems to MicroFocus COBOL and each file has to be converted to SDF and downloaded and that's the best anyone has come up with. It is the nature of the COBOL beast.
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>Is it possible that you can mail me that Generic Prog..
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>At least then it will be a little bit easier for me...
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>TIA

Shoot me yer email address and I'll give it a flying try.