Karen, That only prevents the EOF character from being added to the end of the file.
Dennis McGrath ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 1:44 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Last carriage return removal I thought the proper syntax was SET EOFCHAR OFF Karen I have a text file I am creating with the following: GATEWAY EXPORT CSV .v850file + SELECT edidata FROM edisplit + WHERE storenumber = 'All' OR location IN &vlocation + OPTION MESSAGES ON + |SHOW_PROGRESS ON + |QUALIFIER &vQualifier -- turn off eof setting set eof off -- write the GE and IEA records OUTPUT .v850file APPEND WRITE .vchar WRITE .vge WRITE .viea OUTPUT SCREEN Which works like I need except there is a carriage return at the end of the file. The customer will not accept the file with it ending with a carriage return. I have spent 2 hours trying to get this seemingly simple issue resolved and now I am frustrated. Any ideas on how to end a file without a carriage return?
