Re: The 'joys' of formatting reports in SQL*Plus are elluding me...

I had the same problems and found the cause to be the printer font.

I fumed and fussed until I remembered that Oracle writes fixed length output when spooling. I then realized that the problem was somewhere in my PC client or the $%^&* network.

My default font was set up by our local network admnistrator who decided that everyone NEEDED a proportional font. Once I convinced the network person that I absolutely, positively had to have a fixed font my troubles went away.

Hope this is of value

Jerry

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> Hello, I am trying to do something I thought to be simple, but, I just
> don't seem to be getting it. All I want to do is spool off to a file the
> output of a select * statement. I can spool just fine, but, just can't
> get the data to format properly!!
>
Received on Wed Dec 17 1997 - 00:00:00 CST