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Note that both records are put into the 160 bytes. The check of pos 81 is to see if there is data or not.

Thank you both, NicC and Dick, both responses helped.

DFSort has something a ?, which is the JOINKEYS match marker.



The values that the byte placed at the position of the ? can contain are B, on both files, 1, on file 1 only, and 2, on file 2 only.

So:


Would copy the whole of record 2 (of 80 bytes) to position 1 of the record when you have an F2 only.

Note that you can put the REFORMAT data in any order that you want:



If that is the way you want the data, that is the way you can have it.