there is an ASCII clause in VFP in earlier version you should use the Generic / Text only printer in windows Arnon > > >I am writing a report to a file. > > Ex. REPORT FORM report1 NOCONSOLE TO FILE test.txt > >Instead of getting an ASCII text file like is expected, I get some > gibberish like this: > > I'm not sure but isn't there a PLAIN keyboard to the REPORT command. We > have included an option to let the user save to a file and I think this is > what we have used. >