I don't think it's FPUTS(). What are you using to view gnFile?

>...
>m.buffer = FGETS(gnOrigin)
>...
>nFAIL=FPUTS(gnFile, m.buffer)
>...
>IF nFAIL = 0
>nERRCNT= nERRCNT+ 1
>...
>I read in a variable length record set (gnOrigin) with a maximum length of 320 characters and later write that record to another file (gnFile) no errors; however, the gnFile now has been wrapped at about 250 characters max.
>
>Have you seen this happen, How can I prevent the wrapping?
>
>Any help appreciated...