I think so you wrong. Because I wrote COM applications with VFP and never care about macros. I suppose I used macro with these...

>Thats exactly the problem,. you cant use macro substitution when using COM, odbc, etc. Try 1 time changing that cpath for a fixed path and you will see.
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>>PUBLIC rpt_prerun
>>rpt_prerun=.F.
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>>REPORT FORM &cpath TO PRINTER NOCONSOLE
>>USE
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>>ENDPROC
>>ENDDEFINE