To be correct, this needs changing from:
From: "Chris Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> All that pack really means is that instead of storing strings padded
> with spaces to a constant length
> as in
> '2938012     AUTO_ADD       100.20     '
> '2938013    SOME OTHER DATA100.20     '
> '2938013    THREE          100.20     '

to 
> All that pack really means is that instead of storing strings padded
> with spaces to a constant length
> as in
> '2938012     AUTO_ADD\0       100.20     '
> '2938013    SOME OTHER DATA\0100.20     '
> '2938013    THREE\0          100.20     '

so that the strings are properly null-terminated when copied into 
a C struct.  And they probably wouldn't be space-padded - might
be null-padding, might be whatever crap followed the null terminator
in the original edit buffer.

Chris Tutty

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