in an application i want to send a message to a user using net send

i am doing this using run /n net send username message text

the trouble with this is twofold.

1. it flashes up a dos box
2. i would like to be able to format the message text to have several lines each with different information on it, this data is pulled from various tables. i have no problem with the fox code for this. the problem is how do i format the net send command message text to have it over several lines instaead of one long line ?

is this possible ?


TIA

Colin Burton