Hi JohnK,

Going way back in memory, I think you need something like a Set PRINTER OFF and possibly a SET DEVICE TO SCREEN before that.

Assuming that you mean FPD and not FPW (if FPW then possibly a SET DEVICE TO DEFAULT???).

Good luck,

Jim N

>Hi All,
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>Was running an old FP program that used SET DEVI TO PRINT and @..SAY for a report. The report ran (looked nasty, though) but then from that point on Windows returned a port conflict of some sort when trying to print "normally" from Word or Excel or VFP. I had to reboot, eventually.
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>I'm running Win98SE and an HPLJ 4L with the HPLJ 4L driver, VFP6 SP3.
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>Any ideas on why this is happening or how to get it to stop happening?