>Helping another programmer with this one, and found that I didn't know the answer.
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>Trying to create a text file for the federal government with a fixed width of 750 characters.
>He's using @SAYs to produce the output file, but cannot exceed a width of 500 characters; everything past that just disappears.
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>I'm pretty sure there are several ways around this, but it's his pet project and he wants to do it in FOXDos 2.5. Can't use a copy to type SDF because there are unique header and trailer records as well. Don't want to introduce him to low-level file operations. Any ideas?
LLFF are really not that complicated. OTOH, if they do work in this case, you might create wrapper functions for them, to write one line at a time.
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