Why don't you use textmerge?

>I have to maintain a 2.6 system. In the past it has been printing the results of a run to the printer. Recently many clients have got USB printer connections and the old system, of course, can't recognise one. Rather than altering each clien's computer set-up it was decided to print the report to a text file, which can be printed off at leisure.
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>Trouble is, one (new) client says that the text file is created but that it's empty of any details. Now the file is written to, emulating the old version (where ? and ?? were used) thus:
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>If llTextFileOK
>    = FPUTS( lnFileHdl, "Summary of application :"+alltrim(xdesc)+", included in file")
>    = FPUTS( lnFileHdl, thisziph+" downloaded on "+dtoc(date()))
>    ...
>    = FPUTS( lnFileHdl, "")												
>    = FPUTS( lnFileHdl, "********************************************")
>    = FPUTS( lnFileHdl, "* The above application contains :         *")
>    = FPUTS( lnFileHdl, "* Passenger records :"+str(tnumber,10,0) + "  :         *")
>    = FPUTS( lnFileHdl, "* Total fare  :"+str(tfare,10,0)+" pence            *")
>    ... etc
>EndIf 	&& llTextFileOK	
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>Now in the past I've had to put delays into certain FP code because the computer was running too fast for the old code and was skipping certain commands, but I can't remember whether that was FPD26 code or VFP3. I haven't visited the client but I expect he has a fast new puter, as it has no floopy drive. Could this be a reason the FPUTS commands are not writing to the file, and that putting in wee delays will sort it?
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>I need to get this right as it's a new client who's not been impressed at the failure of the system to report his output and I can't afford to send him a new system that equally doesn't work.
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>'ppreciate it ASAP if you can :-)
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>Terry