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How to print report in draft mode?
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22/05/1998 03:32:37
Thongchai Prertpornpan
Grolier International, Inc.
Bangkok, Thailand
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00101058
Message ID:
00101357
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>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>> I use VFP to create report but to print report by Dot Printer is very slow.
>>>I want to print it as draft mode in DOS. What should I do?
>>>
>>
>>IMHO, the only way to do that is by creating your report form in DOS mode (FP 2.x for DOS) w/o converting it to Windows based. Then use below syntax for printing:
>>
>>REPORT FORM report_dos_mode NOCONSOLE TO PRN.
>>
>>The above syntax is the DOS compatibility (speed) of VFP reports.
>
>Thanks Jess,
> Can FP2.x for DOS operate VFP's DBF? Anyway I will try it.

> Could you tell me whether there is utility to convert VFP's Report to FP for DOS 's Report?

I do not know exactly if you could compile the VFP report into DOS format by using the command compile myfile.frx/frt. You can try it.

I guess you already did a lot of reports in VFP but the speed is not satisfactory when using DOT Matrix. Am I right?
JESS S. BANAGA
Project Leader - SDD division
...shifting from VFP to C#.Net

CHARISMA simply means: "Be more concerned about making others feel good about themselves than you are in making them feel good about you."
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