thanks for reply. I found out from the programmer. he downloaded pscript.dll from following website.
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>http://www.abeelabs.com/en/index.html
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>we wanted to print about 500 fields from a dbf on a pre-printed stationary. i think it was hard to do this with report writer so he is using this dll. but its not compatible with vfp. all those functions returns correct information but it freezes upon exiting vfp after u call any of the function from that dll.

Looks like DLL does not release correctly and VFP hangs waiting for it to go away.

>instead of declare dll command i just tried doing 'set library to pscript.dll' and this itself is freezing.

Why would you? It's not VFP FLL.

>i am just wondering cant we do this whole thing in foxpro itself without any APi calls?
>i.e. set device to printer and then @...say 1,1 'print here' . something like that
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>or otherwise we will have to find out windows API functions euivalent to what pscript.dll functions offer.
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>thanks so much for all your help. please let me know if u can help.

There're many ways to do that including VFP report. I would suggest that you start new thread.