David,

Thank you very much for the help. I will experiment with it to see if I can duplicate your example. So you do not have to go with the *.dll route? I hope you are correct.

Thanks again.
Rick



>Rick,
>
>If you can use all ??? output for the report it's quite easy to send a file of PCL commands to the printer. The easiest way is:
>
> create cursor temp1 ( mForms m )
> append blank
> append memo mForms from forms.pcl
> wait window "Downloading claim forms to the printer" nowait
> ??? "" + temp1.mForms && can't ??? a memo directly so make it a string
> use
>
>
>>I am trying to send a file of PCL code to a laser printer from within an VFP5 application. It does not work directly. It was suggested that I use a .dll, but I don't know how. Can anyone help?