From: "Chris Antos (Exchange)" 
offhand, it sounds like you probably have RemoveTrailingWhite turned on.
this will remove trailing whitespace.  it may consider hex 00 to be
whitespace.
//chris
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From:	D.M.P. [SMTP:dmpater@ix.netcom.com]
> | Sent:	Thursday, May 01, 1997 11:26 AM
> | To:	semware corp
> | Subject:	zero's and spaces
> | 
> | just a quick question. We had a situation where we had a file that
> came
> | off our HP3000 as 184 bytes (it likes even numbers, and kinda chokes
> on
> | odd file sizes) long. we had to produce a file 183 bytes for someone
> | at the federal level. So we blocked a character column at 184 and 
> | deleted with TSE PRO 2.6.  We could see in hex that the columns were
> 
> | filled in  with, ex: "31 20 20 20 20 00"  the "00" in 184. when we
> | were done we ended up with  "31" all the spaces were gone "20 20 20
> 20"
> | we may not have a problem. how can I prevent this from happening?
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