Exporting ASCII text from Filemaker Pro

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From: Tim Myers
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 03:20

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I have a question about exporting ascii-only text from FileMaker Pro
2.0 that I hope someone can help me with.

One of the databases I use frequently has information that I also like
to upload to online services as ascii text.  I have been able to develop
a script to locate and export only the text from a particular field, but
the text contains extra ascii characters that foul my upload. This is
text from a scrolling field that can be lengthy, and FMPro adds ascii
characters at each carriage return. I thought that tab-separated text
would be the best export format, but when I try "merge" or some of the
others, I get additional information, field names, quotation marks, etc.

Obviously I could manually copy and past the text from the field into
a word processor.  I can even send an Apple event to open my word 
processor and copy the field text, so all I have to do is paste it
into the word processor.  That saves a little time, but I'd rather just
export the text to a file and upload it later.

Am I missing something easy here?  I'd appreciate any advice.

Tim

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Tim Myers                      
Ohio University             tmyers@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu

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Subject: Exporting ASCII text from Filemaker Pro
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