>I use aprinters() to get all the printers on a user's machine. Weird thing is that when I want to pick a given printer sometimes it does'nt appear in the list of available printers.
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>And if I come back to it either after closing the application or even trying again later (without closing the app) it works allright.
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>One system is alone and another one is part of a network.
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>Any explanation for this behaviour?
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>Would you recommend something other than aprinter() to get the printers?

Answering your second question:
Re: Getting All Available Printers and their local port Thread #732227 Message #732297

or http://www.news2news.com/vfp/?group=57&function=215 (code example in Members section)