>>I need to create a report that have at least 3 copies. I can use the FOR..NEXT, but I think that I can use system variable _pcopies. How ???

Using the _pcopies variable will give you identical behavior to issuing the report command multiple times in a loop.

>in 2.6/windows, you could say 'report form myform to printer PROMPT' and get a window where you could select printer, number of copies, etc. for some reason in 3.0, they didn't include the number of copies option. have they put it back in in 5.0?

This option is better, as your program doesn't have to generate the report multiple times. The issue of whether copies is an option on the PROMPT screen has to do with your operating system and your printer driver, I believe. I get different behavior with PROMPT when I run my app on different machines. There is some info on this somewhere in the 3.0 help files, but I don't remember exactly where. Try searching for it.

Mark Peter