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-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: robin <[log in to unmask]> > From: Van Snyder <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Wednesday, 26 October 2005 4:14 > > >Or just read into a nine-element (or nine-column) array cyclically, > >keeping track of the seam in the cycle, so you can retrieve the last > >nine records in order. > > If the file is very long, better to read each entire record using an > A-format (in order to avoid the conversions), using the cycle method, > and then to read those records using the desired format. > > >-- > >Van Have I lost track of something here? What's wrong with POSITION=APPEND on the OPEN? Doesn't that get you to the end by magic? Then do the 9 backspaces. Dick Hendrickson