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>and then a text file is emailed to the person that requested it. What I
>would like to see, is a file that could be pulled up by an email client,
>that looked like the report to the printer or screen in fox. When you report
>to file ascii in fox, the rows and columns get all jumbled up. It would seem
>that we should let the user see the original report from inside the app, but
>that is not an option in this case. I have several other instances where a
>user runs a report and then wants to email the results to a client. They
>always want it to look just like the printout.
>>any ideas?
>
>You might want to look into printing to a .PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file and
>having your clients use the free Acrobat reader to view the file. We're
>using this approach to print reports from our Web server for downloading to
>clients.
>
IMO, there is simpler way of doing this. You just REPORT FORM ... TO FILE ... (no ASCII clause) and then on client site, it's enough to COPY FILE .. TO LPT1:
to get it printed. The only trick, is to create report on 'server' side for the same print driver as in 'client'.