Re: formatting columns for flat file export

From: John Verhoeven <johnv_at_acix.DIALix.oz.au>
Date: 1996/08/13
Message-ID: <johnv.09vz_at_acix.DIALix.oz.au>#1/1


In article dated 12 Aug 1996 21:42:04 GMT, Tom Mettling (mettling_at_pop.erols.com) wrote:
> Can anyone give me a hand?
>
> I need to export some tables to fixed-width ASCII for import into another database.
> The problem is that one of the tables contains some long fields, 400 and 200
> characters. I was testing it with the following:

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> The problem is that the title keeps wrapping, no matter what I set the page width
> to. Any help??

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