Thanks Sergey, I thought I remembered something like that.

>See SET MEMOWIDTH command
>
>>Is there a setting somewhere that controls the maximum length of a string without a carrige return?
>>
>>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