original geoinstruments files (mag and rad) concatenated then trans(magtrans,radtrans) run over them to increase the field length of the fid field by 1 character and make the record length constant. also in the mags to fix the format of the negative values for diurnal and igrf and make them F10.2 before data load into agp pull off all with use=0 the dfn file describes the final result the same is applied to both area C and area E to make loading simpler.