Thanks Bill,

Setting page size and line size to conform to notepad may be the only way to go. Barry Schwarz suggests notepad does not recognize page breaks and so I might as well give up and either do as you suggest or use something like word or wordpad.

John

At 04:26 PM 10/6/00 -0400, you wrote: >John: > >I have an app or 2 that generate .txt reports (proc printto). Sent via >email, these are opened via a double click of the rodent. I found that I >had to set the SAS ls= and ps= to values that NotePad margins were defaulted >to. Upon printing, the pages do work out well. I don't recall about the >square boxes, but I've seen them before. > >If the same lst (.txt) file is opened in Word, the page breaks are visible - >but usually in the wrong place! > >hth > >W.(Bill) Droogendyk >Quality Systems >Dofasco Inc. Hamilton ON Canada >Telephone: 905 548 7200 x3359 >Fax: 905 548 4007 > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: John Jones [SMTP:jonesj@pharmaresearch.com] > > Sent: Friday, 06 October, 2000 16:11 > > To: Droogendyk Bill > > Subject: RE: SAS lst file on NT, notepad not honor page breaks > > > > > > Why the page breaks are ignored. Sorry for the confusion... jj > > > > > > > > At 04:02 PM 10/6/00 -0400, you wrote: > > >what do you want to know? > > > > > >W.(Bill) Droogendyk > > >Quality Systems > > >Dofasco Inc. Hamilton ON Canada > > >Telephone: 905 548 7200 x3359 > > >Fax: 905 548 4007 > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: John Jones [SMTP:jonesj@PHARMARESEARCH.COM] > > > > Sent: Friday, 06 October, 2000 15:56 > > > > To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU > > > > Subject: SAS lst file on NT, notepad not honor page breaks > > > > > > > > This has got to be a popcorn question for somebody. > > > > > > > > On NT SAS generates a list file (*.lst). That list file has page > > > > breaks. However, when the list file is opened in notepad and printed > > the > > > > page breaks are ignored. Not only are the page breaks ignored they > > show > > > > up > > > > and print as little rectangles. > > > > > > > > Would somebody enlighten me? > > > > > > > > ... John