>I am using FPW2.6 on an NT LAN in the accounting branch of a small state agency here in Austin, Texas. Our PC's run Windows '95. I have been asked to write a program that copies individual reports from much larger files which are downloaded to us daily. I've already written the program and it works fine. It is a tremendous time- and paper-saver, since before I wrote it, we had to print the daily download even though 40-70% of the documents in each file never get used (they just get stored in case we ever need them, but so far, we haven't). Thought I'd mention this so you know how your state tax dollars are being wasted.
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>The problem is that some of the reports need to be printed on an as-needed basis. Ideally, users should be able to call up a listing of available reports (they can already do this using Windows Explorer), right-click on the desired file and click on Print, which would send a copy to their default printer. Unfortunately, when they do this now, the results differ from printer to printer and from user to user.
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>I've even tried setting up a report form to print from within FPW, but it prints out the printer control codes on the first line, as well as a little square at the beginning of each line. Printing from outside FPW, while within Win 95, the printer control codes are usually printed and ignored.
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>Anybody got any ideas or easy fixes (especially easy fixes) on this?
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>Thanks,
>Vernon M.
Are the downloaded reports in straight text or do they have printer contol codes imbedded in them? If so you want to parse the files and strip out any control codes.