Rob, I am not removing any spaces. The text string is exactly the bytes provided. The NCR product does have "pages", which aren't reflected. Is that what you are refering to? Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support On Thu, 27 May 2004, Rob Dale wrote: > I notice that the text output seems to have all the spaces removed in the > tables making the readability a bit lower than it could be... I don't notice > that using the software I developed in Windows to look at the data - are you > purposely removing them or is that a byproduct? > > - Rob >