>Dave,
>thanks for the input. I used the space only becuase it was ignored by the program that read the file. It worked but with files over 12MB, removing the spaces makes a 10% or better difference when sending them over the "wire".

1) Put < PRE > at the beginning, and < /PRE > at the end. Omit the spaces, which I placed to avoid interpretation.

2) In general, to see how a special effect was created in a message, press the "Reply" button - you don't actually have to send, if you don't want to. Usually, this will show you the message as it was created.

>
>I have a question. How do you format your code examples in HTML???? Being an old DOS guy I feel like I missed the bus somewhere.
>TIA
>
>>John,
>>
>>There is no difference between the kinds of quotes used... the problem was the space you put between them. *g*
>>
>>

>>* BAD:
>>copy to o:\apinvcln.txt deli with ' ' (1 space) with tab.
>>
>>* GOOD:
>>copy to o:\apinvcln.txt deli with '' with tab
>>copy to o:\apinvcln.txt deli with "" with tab
>>copy to o:\apinvcln.txt deli with [] with tab
>>

>>
>>>thanks, it worked! This is the first time I have ever seen a difference between the single and double quotes. I had not tried the double quote assuming it would be the same result.
>>
>>>>No space.

copy to o:\apinvcln.txt deli with ""  with tab

>>>>>I can't seem to get the copy to delimeted to export a VFP table without some kind of marker on each side of each field. Currently I am using this command:
>>>>>
>>>>>copy to o:\apinvcln.txt deli with ' ' (1 space) with tab.
>>>>>
>>>>>This works ok but encloses each field with spaces. If I use the empty '' I get the ' on each side of the field.
>>>>>I tried BLANK in place of the space but I get a syntax error.
>>>>>