I highlited explanation at the buttom.

>Hi Sergey,
>
>Actually, I don't understand the purpose of this code at all. If you have file and you want to create another file, in which you would have only 320 chars of each string in the first file (e.g. the rest is truncated), then this code is valid (with your corrections). Otherwise why do we need to copy record by record? Or do we want to copy until blank string is encountered?
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>>>Sergey,
>>>Can you help me see whats wrong with this code.
>>>Infinit loop: value of buffer always blank -
>>>All I want to do is read MedSearch and write to new Destination...
>>>After that works I want to drop certain lines of the original text file
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>>Other than that I don't see any problems.