does anyone have any experience reading an ebcdic file  that is made up of
multiple record types with different record lengths... these records are not
cariage return line feed delimited either...

example;

record 1 type a length 100
record 2 type b length 300
record 3 type c length 50
record 4 type c length 50
record 5 length 200
record 6 length 500
record 7 length 1100
record 8 length 1100

then back to record 1
with varying combinations, and this is in ebcdic with some packed data
also...

I am trying to use line input and I seem to lose some bytes..
plus line input seems to try to read the whole file in and run out of
space...

anyone have any ideas on how to approach this?

thanks,
jb

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