Christof,

Happy New Year!

Good catches since I don't need codepages I forget about that. HP PCL commands don't use the troublesome braces. You can also use the poorly documented {LBRACE} and {RBRACE} characters.

> create cursor temp1 ( mForms m NOCPTRANS)
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>because the file might contain binary characters that might be affected by some codepage translation.
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>> ??? "" + temp1.mForms && can't ??? a memo directly so make it a string
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>And this should be STRTRAN(temp1.mForms,"{","{{}", because ??? will interprete anything in curly brackets as a printer code and display a syntax error, if it can't find the closing "}". BTW, in VFP 6 you can use
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> ??? STRTRAN(FILETOSTR("File.PRN"),"{","{{}")