Fred,

I use ??? to create calendar based reports in an app that was ported from dBase DOS. It's tons faster than using a .frx based report because a .frx winds up sending the whole page to the printer as a bitmap so it sends almost 1 meg of print data instead of the 40k the PCL commands take.

When you say it hangs what happens? Does anything print? You sure your code isn't going into an infinite loop?

>can anybody help me regarding printing directly to LPT1 using win32API. In Fox 2.6 I used openComm WriteComm in Foxtools.fll but they are missing in the new version of foxtools.fll. Does anybody have a copy of the win32api help file or some samples .
>I used the ??? command it is very slow. And after printing about 100 lines the program hangs .