>I am reliving an old problem and cannot for the life of me remember what to do about it.
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>Running FPD 2.6 on a Win 98 machine, I can only get reports to run by doing this:
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>1. SET PRINTER TO \\PrintServer\QueueName=LPT1:
>2. REPORT FORM...
>3. SET PRINTER TO \\PrintServer\QueueName=LPT1:
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>If I do not enter the second SET PRINTER command, the output never happens. Anybody remember this one and what the solution was??
>
>As always,
>TIA
You don't really need to set the printer with the same command, but you do need to reset the printer with "SET PRINTER TO". This forces the end of the windows print job, so the spooler knows it's time to print. Otherwise, you won't print until you exit FP.