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...ain a Null halfway through, which causes readChar() not to read the rest of the record. It is a very old database (from the 1970s I think), and I am not really sure why the Nulls are there. I do know that that after the occurence of the first Null, the record looks normal (it's not Nulls to the 640th byte). In any case, I would like to get the whole record and just put some placeholder, like a 0 or a #, in place of the Nulls. I tried using readBin() instead, but I couldn't figure out how to pass that off to iconv... Can anyone help? Thanks, Mike [[alternative HTML version deleted]]