>I have a small app that is running over a Novell LAN. The printers are Network printers (HP). When the app is running on the LAN and the Users are selecting the button that prints reports (Report form preview for Condition to print) The APP will hang and the user has to reboot. This doesn't always hang, just if they run run more than one report. There seems to be disk activity, but even hours later the app is still just OUT THERE! What could I have done wrong? Thanks in advanve for your help.

Tgis is most likely a problem with the HP printer driver in use; HP is notorious for not taking proper care to maintain the state of the floating point processor. If you have not already done so, apply VS SP3 to your VFP development systems, and redistribute the runtime to all your users - SP3 addresses many of the HP printer driver problems by forcing the state of the FPU to reset after each invocation of the driver interface. This doesn't fix 100% of the problems, and the problem is really with the HP driver.

An alternative, and more universally complete, solution, is to use a driver from one of Microsoft's operating system distributions for a compatible printer; as an example, use the HP4 driver off an MS Operating system disk rather than the HP4000, HP4050 or HP6 PCL drivers supplied by HP - you give up a little in terms of the advanced features that can be set in the HP driver, but MS made sure that their driver is well-behaved, and this will likely clear up the problem even if the SP3 update doesn't.