>Thanks Rich,
>I have already issued the set printer to myfilename so I would assume that anything sent to the printer would go to the file. This is true in DOS Fox but I guess not in Visual. I believe I tried the ?? and got the same result but I wlll try again.

Hmm. I would have assumed the same thing you did. After SET PRINTER TO < file > ??? ought to go to that file. Maybe you also need SET PRINTER ON first? (Did you already have it?)

Cheers,
Rich.