>I have reports that are saved to a binary memo field. I want to send those reports directly to the printer, bypassing the windows print drivers.
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>I know that VFP 3.0 can do this, its available in the system menu under "Print", but I can't find a way to do it with code. In order to print the saved reports, presently I am copying the memo to a file, and using the dos copy command. "run copy filename.txt lpt1". This meathod brings up a dos window and is not an acceptable way to print the reports.
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>Can anyone help?
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>Thanks Harvey

I believe you can use the VFP 'COPY FILE' command to do this, just make sure that safety is set OFF because LPT1 will be seen as a File Exists, overwrite condition. I could be wrong, but it seems like I tried this once and was successful.