Thanks for the offer of help. We have a separate group doing reports. I get some more info from them before I contact you.

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>Unfortunately, it's a java front-end. The data is in SQL. And the issue is just 1 or 2 reports out of the system. I no for sure that one of these reports is nothing more then a listing of transactions. So no data manipulation whatsoever. Except for some simple totalling. So the problem is in the rendering of all the pages by the report engine.
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>Why unfortunately ? <s>
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>Is the hosting environment of the java application Wintel, can you run an executable? I have an object designed to do nothing but run reports generically in a VFP executable, from non-VFP applications (and potentially by non-VFP programmers). It takes an XML file of instructions and you bind in your data-grabbing information. Obviously, it's designed for non-Fox data, so that's no problem.
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>OTOH, if it's a java application and there's not a lot of work to do to format the report, then WTF go through Crystal, Fox, or any reporting engine, just make the JDBC calls and send the text and calculated values out to disk. Right? That would certainly be fastest and easiest. Do you zip the results at the end of the run, send them to the printer, or what?
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>We should talk... e-mail me or something.
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