>I am trying to send data directly out to a variety of different printers such as POS receipt printers, label printers, etc using Raw printing through the VFP ??? command. Recently a customer discovered that if any of the text being sent out includes the opening curly brace { then I get a syntax error. Try this command:
>??? "{"
>
>It doesn't work. Any way to work around this?
>
>Thanks!


We've always created text files manually, and then used something like:

RUN COPY myFile.txt LPT1:

That way we could examine and debug the text file, and also easily record the transaction for a later reprint if required. This was done mostly to create formatted Zebra printer files for high speed labels.