You're missing the SET PRINTER commands that set and reset the printer, creating a print job. Try the following instead:

SET PRINTER TO LPT1: (or windows printer name)
SET DEVICE TO PRINT
@ 2,46 SAY 'test'
SET DEVICE TO SCREEN
SET PRINTER TO

In a PRG, by the way, you would want to add SET CONSOLE OFF before SET PRINTER... and SET CONSOLE ON after the last SET PRINTER.



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>I tried this in the command window and a PRG:
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>SET DEVICE TO PRINT
>@ 2,46 SAY 'test'
>SET PRINT TO
>SET DEVICE TO SCREEN
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>and it sends output to printer as I would expect in both cases. However, if I call this PRG from another PRG or even place this code within a form method, nothing happens when this code fires. I traced it through the debugger, the code is being executed, but no output is sent to the printer. I then issue the above commands in the command window and I get my output correctly. What am I missing here?
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>>Hiya Jim ----
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>>It has more to do with the way Windows and/or the network works. The entire print job is released to the printer at once. It makes sense when you think about the way a network has to manage resources.
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>>So, the practical solution is to SET PRINTER TO {whatever} before the @..SAYs and SET PRINTER TO {blank} afterward and the entire job spools to the network. You're not going to find a way to do it line by line and that would, indeed create some messy situations if someone else sent something to that printer.
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>>>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.
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>>>>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.