Bill,

You can put in a character that will never be a part of the table, then use strtran() to replace it with spaces...something like below. It does have to write the file two times, so if the table is large there is a performance hit:

set safety off
lcOutFile = "customers.txt"
lcScrap = chr(15)
copy to (lcOutFile) type delimited with &lcScrap with character tab
strtofile(strtran(filetostr(lcOutFile),lcScrap,""),lcOutFile)

>When I use the following command to copy a dbf to a tab delimited text file:
>COPY TO MaxA1 DELIMITED WITH " " WITH CHARACTER TAB I get an extra space
>in my character text file columns. The reason I did this with blank is I don't want the ' " ' characters around character data which I get when delimted with just 'TAB'. I also do not want the extra space. I need a tab delimited file with just tabs. Could someone please tell me what I am doing wrong. I had written a low level but am having a problem with the decimals...so i think COPY TO is my best bet for now..
>Thanks a lot..
>Bill