Have you tried another name for the file? NULL is a reserved word, maybe it causes problem.

>Could you help me with this? Please! :-)
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>I'm upgrading from VFP8 to VFP9 and I'm working on our printing routines.
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>We have a noOutput() method used to run a report, with the only purpose to calculate the number of pages.
>We can't just use the _PAGETOTAL var, because we are chaining many reports.
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>First problem: the following command sends the output to the default printer.

>report form (cNomeReport) noconsole to file null.txt
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>I've tried almost every combination of commands before the "report form..."
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>set printer off
>set printer to file null.txt
>etc...
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>What is driving me crazy, is that the code we used under VFP6, 7 and 8 worked for years.. :-(
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>Another strange behavior is that if I remove the "to file.." clause from the "report form" command..

>report form (cNomeReport) noconsole
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>..it doesn't go to the printer, but the _pagetotal is always 1.
>Have you ever experienced such problems?
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>Sorry for asking help for this again.. but I'm surely missing something here.