>>>

>>>3934447      04/06/2012    100.00       M34444       This is description of item              ABCD            33333
>>>                                                                                 from memo field
>>>

>>Try
>>

COPY TO 'TabDelimitedFile.txt' DELIMITED WITH "" WITH CHARACTER TAB

>Thank you very much. It works! The only thing (and it is not a big deal) is I am trying to figure how to make the first column (which comes from a char field of 15 characters) is aligned to the max width. That is, in my test, the second column (date) is indented from the left margin according to the actual value in the first column.

Who guarantees that there will NEVER be a TAB in one of the char/memo fields ?
At least put a warning in the docs and your contract...

regards

thomas