Neil Hodgson wrote:
W. eWatson wrote:

I am writing a txt file. It's up to the user to print it using Notepad
or some other tool.

   WordPad will interpret chr(12) as you want.

   Neil

That may be the solution. Just tell the end user to copy the file into it, and print it there.

I just tried it in Wordpad, and it works, but my --- underlines are pushed together. Maybe tabs instead of spaces. The columns past Seq # in WordPad may suffer from the characters not being fixed width. Well, a little work with WordPad might be enough for users to get it right. "Copy txt file into wordpad. Select all the text, and set format to fixed (if that's possible.).

Here's what a txt sample looks like. It has line wrap here, and the page feed

Date/Time & Station UTC Seq # Frames Time Span Pix Dst Pix/Sec ------------------- -- ------------------- ----- ------ --------- ------- ------- 2008/11/12 17:38:58 WW 2008/11/13 01:38:58 1 Noise data. Short track. 2008/11/12 17:39:24 WW 2008/11/13 01:39:24 2 Noise data. Short track.


  <-------------PAGE FEED
Date/Time & Station UTC Seq # Frames Time Span Pix Dst Pix/Sec ------------------- -- ------------------- ----- ------ --------- ------- ------- 2008/11/17 22:29:54 WW 2008/11/18 06:29:54 21 Noise data. Short track. 2008/11/18 01:51:36 WW 2008/11/18 09:51:36 22 Noise data. Short track. 2008/11/18 04:05:03 WW 2008/11/18 12:05:03 23 Noise data. Short track. 2008/11/18 17:40:42 WW 2008/11/19 01:40:42 24 95 3.17 48.17 15.21
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