Josh,

Thanks for the reply. I was hoping I could avoid using the LLFF. I will if I have to, but I was hoping for a simpler solution.

>You may need to use the low-level file functions (LLFF). It's not as easy as COPY TO, but it's much more powerful. Check out the help file for FOPEN(), FPUTS(), FCLOSE(), etc.

>>I have what I considered a very simple problem, but I have been unable to find a solution. I have a file with all character fields that I need to copy to an ascii file with no quotes around the fields.
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>>The file will have variable length records so I can't used TYPE SDF, and when I do delimited with blank, I get quotes around each field. I need just the contents of each field copied directly to the ascii file with no quotes and no delimiters. There must be a simple way to do this. Any ideas?

Peter