Patrick Dunford wrote:

> The problem is that ASCII is not formatted, is it? Are they going to be in a
> position of having to reformat the ascii once they receive it? At least a
> report file can be loaded and printed with the exact formatting.

The beauty of ASCII is that it isn't formatted. What if they don't want
to 
print it? ASCII is a popular (and simple) way of transferring data from
one
organisation to another -- not as fashionable as XML, but adequate.

Kerry S
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