Here is a repost of the modification necessary to get printer files to do ascii well: The ascii, strip and email printer files shipped with Xywrite 4 (and probably 3) have errors that introduce extraneous LFs into the files. To correct that shortcoming, simply manually clear what was originally after the LE< (line ending) and PE< (paragraph ending) commands in the the printer file and enter what you want to have appear after each line or paragraph. In the example below, I have indicate CRLF (carriage return line feed combinations), but one could easily include abefore or after the CRLF combinations to help HTMLify an existing document. Another necessary change involves the vertical spacing table. Be sure that VU=1,1,100 and VS:1. But be doubly sure that a blank line (no spaces, null characters, LF or CR symbols, other special characters, etc.) follows the VS:1 command. For example, ; PRINTER INFORMATION ; LE< <- add the # of CRLF combinations wanted at each line end (0 to ?) PE< <- add the # of CRLF combinations wanted at each paragraph end (1, 2, ?) FB< FE< PG< ; ; VERTICAL SPACING TABLE ; VU=1,1,100 VS:1 ; End of example Ed Plummer ---------------------------------------------------------------------- At 04:42 PM 9/7/96 GMT, you wrote: >I know long ago someone mentioned changes that could be made to either >ascii.prn or mail.prn so that they would actually work properly, which >of course they don't in the state they're in when you recieve them from >the Tech Group. I find I am now in need of printing out things to a >file properly formatted for email. > >Thanks > >Charles Herold >charles.herold@xxxxxxxx > _________________________________________________________________ Intricate Decisions P.O. Box 55661 Decision Support Riverside, CA 92517 on Human Issues and Markets in a Culturally Diverse, Tel: 909/ 274-9829 Information-Rich and Fax: 909/ 787-5409 Computer-Assisted Email: oeplummer@xxxxxxxx World orlay.plummer@xxxxxxxx _________________________________________________________________