>>We are doing a Fox 2.0 DOS to VFP9 conversion. There are more reports than you can shake a stick at. They are written using ?? and ? to send raw data to the printer. I have been able to get this to work with the default printer but need to be able to get the current default printer, set the default to a printer for wide column reports and then set it back to the original default.
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>>Has anyone done this?
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>>Thanks Jeff
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>Instead of setting the Windows default printer (which will affect other applications), you might simply SET PRINTER TO NAME ...
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>This will change the printer for the VFP application, until you exit the application.

The problem is that using ?? and ? will only output to the default printer. I have tried setting printer to name printername, printername and getprinter(). None of these work with ?? and ? unless it is the default printer.

thanks, jeff