Sometimes users have difficulty telling these software products to transfer and set the file characteristics at the time of upload. You will be overwriting the file with the transferred file on the upload, but you will be getting the right file characteristcs. 80 or locsite fixrecfm 80, above. If you find that it is not possible with your communications software to get the record length to be 80, you may be able to process the transport file with SAS to get another file with a record length of 80. It is this second file that is used for the import.
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