I have a number of existing reports.
Those reports have data grouping and report variables.

I don't know simple way to convert those reports into textmerge command.

>If the output is always txt files, why don't you use TEXTMERGE method instead of REPORT FORM to create the file? You can achieve a nice control over text output with \ and \\ commands.

>>I use a number of reports as templates to generate txt files using
>>Those repors contain one field in each row with plenty of empty space
>>between rows.
>>
>>I use the following command to create txt files :
>>
>>_ASCIICOLS=250
>>REPORT FORM TO FILE ASCII
>>
>>In Windows 98 this works OK.
>>In Windows 2000 some lines in output txt files are merged together in random places: first character in sime line is replaced by a first character from a second line.
>>
>>I realized that this is a VFP 7 bug. Since Microsoft will not fix VFP 7 bugs I'm looking for another solution.
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>>This solution must allow non-programmers to create a report templates and utility to generate a txt files from them.
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>>I'm looking to the following possibilites:
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>>1. Is it possible to modify frx2word so that it will generate txt files without using word ?
>>
>>frx interpretation and Word automation code is mixed in frx2word.
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>>There seems to be two possibilities: a) re-write frx2word separating word automation into separate class. This allows to add new drivers to frx2word to generate txt and html files.
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>>b) modify frx2word code to add txt file creation.
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>>Is this reasonable ?
>>
>>2. Is REPORT ... ASCII bug fixed in VFP 8 ?
>>
>>3. Or are there some free other solution ? I studied a txt file creation utilities in file area but have'nt found any utility which converts frx to txt file .

Andrus