I'm not an old dbase guy (just happen to have an old dbase report I'm rewriting), so I'm asking this out of ignorance. When I run dbase 3 in windows I can issue SET DEVICE TO PRINT and immediately see output directed to the printer line by line with @...SAY (Output is not spooled). Am I forced to spool output with VFP? I guess there's nothing wrong with that, I just assumed I'd see the same output behavior as DBASE.

>Hiya Rich ---
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>>You sort of answered your own question here.
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>>SET PRINT ON redirects @...SAY to the printer. (SET DEVICE TO PRINT redirects ? commands to the printer. Or did I get them backwards?)
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>You've got them backwards but, hey, not bad for memory of old stuff.
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>>SET PRINTER TO [anything] flushes the printer buffer. FoxPro buffers direct output to the printer until you change printers (or pretend to).
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>Eloquently stated.