I've lost the original post, so please excuse if I misunderstand the 
situation.  But, if you're looking to extract some data sets to ASCII 
format (and you're not looking for report headers, subtotalks, etc.), 
you can use Query to create the ASCII files by using the SAVE command. 

Just my $.02 worth and probably worth less than that.

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