ISMUTL.LIT 1.4(141) adds an option, when dumping directly from the DAT file, to dump just the active records (default), or just the deleted records, or all the records. The latter two options might be useful in exotic data recovery or other operations. For example, if you accidentally deleted some records, you could dump just the deleted records and then reload them, effectively un-deleting them. Or if you have a large file containing many deleted records, you could split it into two files -- one for the active records and one to archive the deleted records -- by dumping the active and deleted records separately and then using them to build two new files from scratch.