Export text from tabbed field

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Fri Jan 3 12:45:01 EST 2003


Signe Marie Sanne wrote:

> I already had "file" implemented in the path (just omitted it in my posting).
> The text file (both in Word and plain text) shows tabs, but instead of being
> placed in a fixed place, the tabs all seem to just introduce a certain number
> of spaces where the tab stops are, but since the text in each column varies,
> the original columns in the fields are not maintained. Other clues?

Sounds more like a problem with the reading of the file than the writing of
it then.  You might try "binfile" instead of "file" to make exta sure no
translation is being done by Rev.

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