See SET MEMOWIDTH command

>Is there a setting somewhere that controls the maximum length of a string without a carrige return?
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>I have a loop that builds a message string as in
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>cMessage = chr(13)
>scan
>..do some other stuff
>cMessage = cMessage + 'more data' + chr(13)
>endscan
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>I then output the message with a simple
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>set alternate to 'Myfile'
>set alternate on
>? cMessage
>set alternate off
>set alternate to
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>The result file has unwanted hard returns inserted into the middle of each line. I've never seen this before and and wondering how to fix.
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>Thanks for any help here.
>-Don