>yes - it's me again - sorry chaps!
>thanx to Ed, George, Fred and the lads, i have CopyFile() working fine getting draft printing to a DM printer, but trying to print .frx reports with W2k is a 'no go'. 'set printer to name &PrtName' gets a 'error accessing printer spooler' and 'report form xyz.frx to printer prompt noconsole' gets 'error loading printer driver' message. i have cleared out the junk in the report memo field etc. printing a windoze test page worx fine, but just nothing from vfp. under 98 and 95 everything worx fine.
>ideas anyone?
>best - john

Does your printer name have a space in it? Try:

SET PRINTER TO NAME (PrtName)

instead of using the macro.