>- Card is ok, better than Netdata, *but* it's not an IBM standard format, there > is no documentation on the format (nor is there any about Netdata, I know), > and, last but not least, it tends to dump a file by *blocks* not records. This is how it gets its speed over other any other program that I know of for doing what it does. > This is ok except that the garbage at the end of the last block of the file > gets transferred along with the rest. You have typically 3-5 lines garbage > at the end of the card deck... I've never observed more than the remainder of the last 80 col record being filled out w/ whatever garbage happened be in the buffer (yes, this does appear to be somewhat of a security exposure that should be fixed, if anyone does a mod before we get to it feel free to forward it to me). Thus this would be 0-79 'extra' bytes that should be blanked, but no extra lines in the file.