
                                                      Your Company 
                                                      8080 Micro St. 
                                                      Silicon, CA 93002 
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JIM MCHUTCHION           
SELF                 
21779 LUNDY                    
FARMINGTON HILLS, MI 48024      


Dear JIM             

This  is  the body of a form letter.  It was first written with  a  word 
processor and then modified to become a command file.  The modifications 
are:  placement  of  question  marks at the beginning of each  line  and 
enclosing  the text in single quotes or square brackets.  In  this  way, 
each  line of text is written to the ALTERNATE file by means of the  SET 
ALTERNATE commands in MAILLTTR.CMD (which calls this command file). 

The text of the letter can be altered based on the database data fields. 
For instance,  if the content of the letter should change for  different 
states,  then  this condition can be checked and the appropriate  action 
can be taken. 


                                              Yours truly 




                                              Mike R. O. Chip 

Example: 

California residents add 4% sales tax 
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