Maynard,
I recommend you use TEXTMERGE commands you get complete control and it's not very hard to set up the fields/order/control character information that you need to send to the device.
>I need help on a couple of COPY TO commands (or some equivalent):
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>I am writing out text files to be consumed by an engraving machine (Xenetech Engraver). I need to be able to copy only the text, similar to the SDF command, but not copy out any of the trailing spaces. Is there a command to do this?
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>Also, for another process, I need to be able to write out a different text file, delimited with elongated colon (also called Pipe in some circles, I believe) but not have any of the quotes that go along with the COPY TO DELIMITED WITH | command. Any suggestions?