>I have a client with a large number of FPDOS 2.x reports, that we want to run under VFP5. Some of these reports go to dot matrix printers, and should stay fixed-pitch font as they are now under the DOS version.
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>I've encountered problems trying to create reports with a fixed-pitch font as native VFP5 reports. Typically columns don't align properly and I get unpredictable numbers of blank lines between vertical labels and/or fields. For these reasons I'd rather continue to maintain these reports in FPDOS, and simply run them under VFP5.
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>I've already set up the Generic/Text Only printer driver on the machines that print to DMPs.
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>However, I understand that even the DOS report writer puts some printer-specific information into the .FRX that might cause problems. I seem to remember that "blanking out" certain fields in the .FRX could alleviate this, but I couldn't find any references in recent posts. Can anyone summarize this for me or point me to where I might find more information?

It's a font thing. FoxFont or FoxPrint did a monospace operation that would give you this columnar output.

__Stephen