Bruce,

There is no limit to the length of a line (number of characters between CRLF pairs) in a TXT file. Some programs you use to view the file may set artificial limits like 256 characters per "line".

>Hi David. My preference would not be to split the file but, for whatever reason, when I output the file from the proprietary system it is built in the record lenght seems to be limited to around 512 characters so I don't get all the data. I am still exploring to see if this is a limitation of the proprietary system or windows .txt files but thought I should look into other solutions as well. Thanks for your reply. It looks like it will work great. I'll let you know what I find out.