try this:

COPY TO xx.lst DELIMITED WITH TAB
*-- now remove the '"' character of the tab delimited file
STRTOFILE(STRTRAN(FILETOSTR('xx.lst'),'"',''),'xx.lst')

>All:
> I have a table and from the table I want to convert the data to TAB DELIMITED text file. From Fox, I use the COPY TO function to create the TAB DELIMITED file. Question: I need to delete the " " that appears in my text file periodically. I want a TAB DELIMITED file only on both character and numeric values without any
>quotation marks around them.
>
> P.S. I already tried .sdf format.
>
>Thank you
>MA