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Old 03-17-2008
jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is offline Forum Staff  
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Whenever you deal with mainframe files consider dd

I think you want something like - this assumes the input file has carriage returns (newlines):

Code:
dd ifile=fname cbs=2060 conv=block > fname2

Play around until you get what you want.