George Yolland wrote:
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I have become involved in a project in which we have to extract some data
out of an application based on Interbase v 5.1 (at least that the version I
am told). We need to move the data to an IBM AS/400 environment so we'd
either like a fixed length record or delimited, mostlikely csv, record.
...

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Do you just want to have data in fixed length records? You might insert
the data into an 'external table'.
Create external table, then select data and insert into that table - and
you should have what you want.

Regards,
Aage J.