We have lots of programs that export our data from UniData to tab-delimited 
text files.  Some of these are opened by Excel (which has its faults), some are 
imported into other databases.  These files will be 1) E-mailed as attachments 
or written to specific location on the network.



If I know that the users will always use Excel to open the attachment, I 
usually make the file extension "xls" so that it simply fires up Excel when 
double-clicked and parses everything out reasonably cleanly (but still drops 
leading zeros, converts big numbers to scientific notation, etc).



We are using UniData on HP-Unix.



Is there a good way to convert @VMs to something that Excel will correctly 
convert to what would be equivalent to the Alt+Enter in Excel?  I do not want 
the data on multiple rows - I want multiple lines with breaks within a single 
row/cell.





John Israel

Sr. Programmer/Analyst

Dayton Superior Corporation

721 Richard St.

Dayton, OH  45342

937-866-0711 x44380
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