Your Company 
						      8080 Micro St. 
						      Silicon, CA 93002	
						      (213) 555-1234 
						      06/21/83 
Thomas Brown			
1234 West Winchester Dr.       
Boston,	MA 10024		


Dear Mr. Brown	      

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 
can be checked and the appropr