HI Malcolm,
thanks for your help. I investigated further and found out that it works ok with XP machines but not with WIN98. The client has decided to upgrade their OS on all their machines. Good outcome for me.


>Fred,
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>HP may make great printers, but their print drivers are not well written.
>
>Try the following to prevent typical HP printer driver problems from affecting your application.
>
>

>declare _fpreset in msvcrt20.dll
>
>_fpreset()
>REPORT FORM ...
>_fpreset()
>

>
>You can replace "msvcrt20.dll" with the equivalent VC runtime file from your VFP 6 distribution. This file will be named something like "msvc*.dll".
>
>Does this fix your problem?
>
>Malcolm