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The card reading device does not look at, nor care, about that corner angle cut. As George Morrow pointed out, stsndards are wonderful, everybody can have a UNIQUE standard of their own. Common sense calls for being consistent within a given deck. That way, the corner will alert you to a card that is upside down or backwards. Also, draw a diagonal line on the top of the deck. The corner cut carried no more weight than the color coding. Notice the different colored stripes. I was once admonished that I didn't "have the required level of clearance to handle a deck that color" In sddition, watch for an ugly little notch on the top edge. THAT means that that card was re-keyed with a Verifier, and that column didn't match. And a little notch on the 80 end means that the entire card matched in the verification re-keying. The last (and VERY last) time that we had keypunching by a service bureau, they "saved time" by verifying the cards while they were still blank, so that a "verified" deck did not require re-keying! Q: /* had special meaning in 360 JCL. How did you duplicate a deck of C source code? (and what if the comments had */ in columns 79,80?) -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com http://www.xenosoft.com/FPUIB Bury me face down, 9 edge first.