Re: Text format using ESNDMAIL

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Is the wrapped text only blanks? I can't tell if the end-of-record bytes
are getting stripped. Does each row start at the right place, just that
there is extra space inbetween? Or is the alighment off? The former
suggests that ASC copies the spooled file to a datafile of some fixed, long
length. The latter suggests that something is wrong with EOR characters.

Do you have a product like textpad that lets you look at the text file in hex?

At 02:58 PM 4/18/02 +0100, you wrote:
>Dear List,
>
>I am a junior programmer developing a utility to e-mail our invoices using
>esndmail.  My main problem is the format that the file attachment takes when
>the person receives it.  The invoices look okay when opened up but seem a
>lot wider than the normal spool file, with the consequence that when printed
>the text wraps around and is unreadable.  Is there anyway around this apart
>from re-jigging the printfile to be really narrow?
>
>When you do a drag and drop from Ops Navigator to your desk top then print
>the text file it comes out fine.  Is there anyway that the esndmail utility
>can produce the text file in the same format as this (a way of changing font
>or other defaults...)?
>
>Thanks in advance for any help - it could really speed up such developments
>in the future!
>
>Jenny Mauger
>Zellweger Analytics UK
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