If your software can be changed to not add 0x1a to the end of a MARC file
then by all means do so. (I don't believe you'll find a specific
prohibition against having it there in the standard, but neither will you
find language anticipating or allowing it. I'm ignoring padding issues for
recor
Our MARC loading and extracting software (internally developed for storage
in a SQL database) adds a DOS end-of-file character (hex 1A) at the end of
each file of (extracted) MARC records. Are there other systems that add this
character? The presence or absence of the character does not seem to cau
