>I have some text files, generated by another program, that need to be printed from within my VFP application. These text files contain embedded CHR(12)'s where each page break should occur. (Line width is already limited to 80 characters, so that's no problem.)
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>How can files like these be printed programmatically without losing the pagination?

Hey bro!

Does it need to print out straight from the text file?

If not, pull the file into a cursor first and run a report on it.
To keep the page breaks, add a grouping column to the cursor (e.g., igroup)
Add a grouping to the report on this grouping column and start each group on a new page.

Then replace the igroup field with a new group for each page break and earlier records.
In this example, the field with the CHR(12) is MyField2:

CREATE CURSOR cuReport (MyField1 c(10), MyField2 c(10), igroup i)
APPEND FROM mytext TYPE DELIMITED
lnGroup = 0
SCAN
  REPLACE igroup WITH lnGroup
  IF CHR(12) $ myfield2
    REPLACE myfield2 WITH STRTRAN(myfield2,CHR(12))
    lnGroup = lnGroup + 1
  ENDIF
ENDSCAN
GO TOP

If it does need to print straight from the file, it may depend on the printer having a page break character it uses and then replacing CHR(12) with this character in the file.

See ya next week!