Hi Shestakov, I used

FIELDS TERMINATED BY WHITESPACE
TRAILING NULLCOLS
(entry DATE "YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS",
router position(25:39) CHAR terminated by whitespace,
if_name CHAR,
dummy1 FILLER,
dummy2 FILLER,
inbitssec CHAR)

and it works great.

I could never get the to_date() function to work though, it would be nice to know why it did not, but as long as I get it to work, I am fine.
Thanks for your continued help.

Shiva.