>>>>Our printer is a jet direct printer and we don't know how to print something from DOS to it.
>>>>
>>>>George
>>>
>>>Hi Dan,
>>>
>>>Is this a local printer or a network printer? If it's a network printer, you should be able to use a NET USE command. Sorry, but I haven't tried it with a local printer in Win2000.
>>
>>Thanks for responding. That definitely pointed us in the right direction.
>
>I tried a number of things from VFP and then went to the machine in question .
>
>The Set Printer To \\[MachineName]\[Shared Printer Name] killed FoxPro so I was looking for alternatives
>
>I issued a !Type [FileName] > \\ [MachineName]\[Shared Printer Name].
>This worked great on a Windows 98 machine but fails miserably in Windows 2000. I keep getting a File Creation Error. I am stuck. Please help. :>

Have you tried:

SET PRINTER TO NAME (GETPRINTER())