I may be over simplifying but if you have the data in a cursor or dbf you could use:
COPY FIELDS cust, address, city TO FileName DELIMITED WITH TAB

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>I'm in the process of building a ascii file to import in Quickbooks.
>Problem: I can't not find how to make the tab delimited file. For ease I was using the set printer to "file". Then using the line below:
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>@ 0,0 say "cust";tab;"address";tab;"city"
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>This is not the correct syntex for the tab in the line. I'm a thinking about chr(??) would insert the tab in the file.
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>Which would be the best??
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>Thanks
>Terry Fish