Hi together, Melanie Petersen asked: > which end of line character I would like. > I can choose from CRLF, LF, CR, or LFCR. First: these characters are inherited from typewriters and teleprinters (telex). CR stands for 'carriage return' LF stands for 'line feed' If you grew up before computers you might remember, that a new line on a typewriter has been produced by two different actions: 1. rolling the platen a few cogs up - a line feed 2. moving the daisy wheel or the golf ball to the beginning of the line - a carriage return The first computers were developed following teletypers which had to send both characters in order to print out the whole thing correctly. When the ASCII code has been established by the ISO in 1968 it has been defined, that these control characters as well as all letters, digits etc are represented by certain Bit-sequences which means certain values, eg CR = 000 1101 (= 13), LF = 000 1010 (= 10). But computer memory has been expensive these days and as programmers are creative people and while printers ceased to be the only output device and cathode ray tubes became common, some programmers found out, that a single LF would long to 'tell' the screen, that the next character has to appear at the beginning of the next line. This is, why text files from unix-based-computers usually have a single 'LF' as a mark at the end of a line and DOS-computers the sequence of 'CR' and 'LF'. The several database-management-systems had their own customs of marking the 'end-of-record'. I don't know which, but some may use a single 'CR' or just a 'LF' followed by 'CR'. Have fun. Regards from Bremen, Old Germany. Hans-Christian