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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: WP Mail merge from dBase III+ ????
Message-ID: <1991Jan30.224721.2979@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 30 Jan 91 22:47:21 GMT
References: <15600004@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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In article <15600004@hpfcso.HP.COM> pgt@hpfcso.HP.COM (Paul G. Tobin) writes:
>
>	Does anyone know of a *reasonably* easy way to create WP5.1
>secondary merge files from dBase III+? 

As of 5.0 at least (haven't tried with 5.1) you could just use an ascii
file with ^R (that's control-R) as a field terminator and ^E as the
record terminator.  If your report writer lets you imbed control characters
just make a file that looks like:

Field1^R
Field2
 multi-line fields are OK^R 
Field3^R
^E
 ..repeat

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us