Spool file format

Hi,
I am trying to come up with a clean consistent spool file format. Right now when I set linesize in sqplus to 9999, the rows in my spool file are printed far apart. so for a small query result I end getting a long file. The linesize is what I want for sqlplus but not spooling. Anyone have settings that would fix this?
Thanks.

set trimspool on
should trunc the lines on the last non blank character.
Nicolas.

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PL/SQL Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
CORE     10.2.0.1.0     Production
TNS for Linux: Version 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
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UNIS
草                                                                              Edited by: P. Forstmann on May 27, 2009 10:30 AM
Edited by: P. Forstmann on May 27, 2009 10:33 AM

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