I agree with Nigel. I guess you copied and pasted these 2 lines of data into the UT editor. I see a lot of spaces in the editor in these 2 lines but not in the preview. Thats means there is something other than spaces.

>Hi Nigel!
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>>Michiel: try using a hex editor on the text file - you may find a non-space character where you thought the space was. Make sure you use the original file (reload it if necessary) as some utilities put spaces where you don't want them. I believe there is a hexedit program with VFP5 (in tools, I think).
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>As I told Stefan, there aren't any non-space characters. That's the difficult thing about it :-((. But there aren't any tools out there (non VFP) that can read a wierd formated ASCII file and convert it to readable .dbf for instance?
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>Thanks!