>The utility is much quicker but I need each record on one line. It seems that everything is one long string. I see the single \ for the first field and would have thought that there would have been a carriage return and line feed.
>Not too familiar with textmerge.
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>It looks like a couple little tweaks would do it.
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>Any ideas?
>Thanks,
>Eric

That utility does create 1 line per record. The \ starts the new line/record, the \\ is a continuation of the current line/record.