Right on, thanks for the reply. I will show you what I can of the file... I can't give you the full thing, though (Work disallows that).
Ok, to write it out first, without the octal, editing the file on the client end with vi I can see the text is formatted properly. When I edit the "Data" file on the server, every once in a while there is a line broken with a blue ^@. I dont actually know what this means.
od output; first 3 lines 
0000000 020101 020061 060504 020171 061501 073165 062565 021440
0000020 021443 072150 070164 027472 073457 073567 061456 060557
0000040 072163 066141 067543 072156 061541 071564 061456 066557

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vi; a sample of a random line in VI before 4-%20I%20cases&ProdID=202&Dispgroup=1&CatID=20###4.5 vi; a sample of the same line in VI after 4-%20I                   ^@ases&ProdID=202&Dispgroup=1&CatID=20###4.5 Interesting, it seems to have translated the 0c of the ascii term to a ^@. There is another line in the file that had 0c and it got changed to the same.
There are some spots in the file that have gotten big spaces put into them somehow.
So it does in fact seem that the file is getting moderately mangled. I am still able to read the file, just those minor errors in it. Do you think I would first have to write a manual header line to the top of the file? If so, how do you do that?
Thanks again for the reply =)
By Kzin

In reply to Re^3: Force Ascii Write by Kzin
in thread Force Ascii Write by Kzin

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