export data

When you say wrapping, if you open the datafile with Notepad or some text editor, does it wrap less if you widen your window?

In Oracle, there is a set linesize command and I would guess the SQL*Server version of that command would be one place to look.

Stephen

No it wraps the same if I widen my window...thanks

osql writes ot a text file, but the max colwidth is 80 chars. It is not really the best way to export data.
You would be much better off using a DTS package to export the data to a file
There you can specify headers, column seperators, line break characters etc

try the -w parameter ,

and you can get headders , etc with osql

osql
    [-?] |
    [-L] |
    [
        {
            {-U login_id [-P password]}
            | –E
        }
        [-S server_name[\instance_name]] [-H wksta_name] [-d db_name]
        [-l time_out] [-t time_out] [-h headers]
        [-s col_separator] [-w column_width] [-a packet_size]
        [-e] [-I] [-D data_source_name]
        [-c cmd_end] [-q "query"] [-Q "query"]
        [-n] [-m error_level] [-r {0 | 1}]
        [-i input_file] [-o output_file] [-p]
        [-b] [-u] [-R] [-O] [-X[1]]
    ]

The maximum you can set with -w is 80 , in this case I think this is not enough, hence the wrapped text.