>I need to be able to export certain parts of our
>data into a fixed length ascii format for the
>Postal Service's new address certification
>program. I have tried doing this with both FP2.6
>and VFP3.0 and have not been successful. Can
>anyone out there help me.
>
A quick method of creating fixed length ascii records is to use the old COPY TO command:

COPY TO xxx.yyy TYPE SDF

You can use the FIELDS and FOR options with this command to limit what goes into the ASCII text file xxx.yyy.