>>>>thanks Jim for answering.. I can not use the Generic Text printer driver, I must
>>>>use the HP driver. Let me tell you what I am trying to do...
>>>>I am trying to open an .frm file and stuff it will DATA from a table
>>>>and print it out. Both the FRM and the DATA needs to print out at the
>>>>same time. Let me show you my code:
>>>>
>>>>* for HP III/IV
>>>>m.brksz=1000
>>>>m.jfile=FOPEN('myformfile.frm')
>>>>m.sz = FSEEK(m.jfile,0,2)
>>>>=FSEEK(m.jfile,0)
>>>>m.ct=(m.sz/m.brksz)+1
>>>>FOR xxx = 1 TO m.ct
>>>> l_string=FREAD(m.jfile,m.brksz)
>>>> ??? l_string
>>>> ENDFOR
>>>>=FCLOSE(m.jfile)
>>>>
>>>>SET PRINTER ON
>>>>SET CONSOLE OFF
>>>>SET TALK OFF
>>>>?? CHR(27)+'(10U'+CHR(27)+'(s0p12.00h10.0v0s0b3T'
>>>>?? CHR(27)+'*p0X'
>>>>?? CHR(27)+'*p0Y'
>>>>=xy_offset(150,812)
>>>>?? 'test by rob'
>>>>?? CHR(27)+'E'
>>>>SET CONSOLE ON
>>>>SET PRINTER OFF
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>FUNCTION xy_offset
>>>>PARAMETER nx,ny
>>>>PRIVATE x,y
>>>> xoffset=0
>>>> yoffset=0
>>>> x=STR(nx+xoffset)
>>>> y=STR(ny+yoffset)
>>>> ?? CHR(27)+'*p'+ALLTRIM(x)+'X'
>>>> ?? CHR(27)+'*p'+ALLTRIM(y)+'Y'
>>>>RETURN
>>>>You are right, it works great in DOS, but I need to it work in vfp50 in win95.
>>>>any ideas?
>>>
>>>Rob, check out the ??? (3 question marks) command which tells the printer "this is a printer code" instead of the ? and ?? commands which say "Print this stuff"
>>>
>>>HTH
>>>Barbara
>>
>>Hi Robert, you can try one more thing but I'm not sure it will work or not, modify the above procedure and try to redirect the output in a file and then try to print the file through "type " command..
>
>thanks Vinod... that did not work.. I think Jim Booth said it when he told me
>that I needed to send code to the print manager instead of the printer.
>I just do not know where to start...rob

As a last option (if all other is failing), you have to recreate the form in foxpro, which can be easily done in report designer...