Paula, Outlook may have removed extra line feeds. When you open the message, check at the top of the window to see if there is a message, such as "Extra line breaks in this message were removed." If so, click on that message, and click "Restore line breaks." --Tom On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Paula Stankus wrote: > Hey Jared, > > I am using the ksh and it supports the "backslash" characters. I do not > think the issue is with my echo commands because the output when viewed > through vi or pg on the Unix platform looks fine. It is when I look at it in > Outlook that the lines are not aligned. :) > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l