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>No, Arnon, I should be that lucky. I did it so that I could use the same report form with different ascii files. I need to be able to controll orientation and pitch without user input. I know this is a poor way to do it but I dont know another way.
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>Currently, it goes like this. I have a file MyQue.que its ascii text. I read (appe) to a cursor MyCurse.OnlyField. The report form is pointing at
>MyCurse.OnlyField (which is a memo field) and then based on text width I change the .frx file to the proper layout. These are financial records and can contain HUGE amounts of data. Normal file is 8-9Meg but some closing reports have been 35Meg! I am looking for a better way to print these files. Cant write a report for each one as this data is comming raw from an outside source. :( :( :(

so u only need the data as a report?

anyway u can use low-level file command like FOPEN etc.
to read directly from the ascii file and create the reports by code
(which seems to be not much different that what u do with the report writer)

also in the current setup u use - u can delete the original file
after u have the cursor :)

Arnon