>Chris,
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>Just as another alternative. TEXTMERGE doesn't suffer from this problem and I think is a better solution to create files than SET ALTERNATE

Exactly what I wanted to say, except for one thing:

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>TAB = chr(9)
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"Tab" is a reserved word; I was bitten with this once, having a variable (or a constant) named TAB, and then trying to Copy ... delimited with TAB.

Ever since, I call it lcTab (var) or C_TAB (constant).