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New Windows only printers wont handle DOS printout!
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Visual FoxPro
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Troubleshooting
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00175969
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>I've done that David, but for some customers that doesn't solve it eather!
>With some printers the program prints, but the printout never reaches the printer, or only the first page is printed and the rest isn't printed until they quit FoxPro or restart Windows.

You might have to fiddle a bit with EJECT to force the page out. The following used to work pretty reliably to release print jobs from within FPDOS for me:

* (at end of printing, to force the spooler to release the job)
SET PRINTER TO NUL
EJECT
SET PRINTER TO

>
>Printing from Dos is a serious problem under Win95!
>
>Vidar
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