>Ed,
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>Thanks for the response. There are two problems with this option. One, the users presently have access to 6 printers -- they need at least 4 (2 printers, envelope printer and a label printer). Foxpro recognizes only lpt1, lpt2 and lpt3. Secondly, I tried your idea (I captured the lpt port directly from within Win95 printer setup), but Foxpro wouldn't leave go of the print job until I quit. I tried set printer to, set printer to lptX, but it wouldn't work.
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Try doing a SET PRINTER TO NUL, followed by an EJECT. This should cause the Windows spooler to shift from the current spool file. This has 0 to do with server behavior. Changing the server alone would not have the effects that you note, since it's behavior in a VxD (so it is not a WinNT behavior, since NT doesn't use this model of device driver). Some other Win9x component on the workstation changed when you changed to the new server.

You can also issue RUN NET USE LPT1: /DELETE to release the printer assignment in effect for LPT1:

I've used FoxPro/DOS with printer numbers as high as 8 in the past, but the workstation had to define the ports before they were usable. DOS and Win9x systems understand and "decode" LPT1-LPT3 by default.