Thanks Jason, you're absolutely right - I was using the Generic/Text Only driver in W95. Thanks for the pointer.

Bye

Liam



>It's possible that your Win9x printer drive doesn't support the £. Have you tried hooking the printer directly to your machine to see what happens?
>Are you dumping the info RAW or formatted?
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>>If I send a £ sign from VFP it comes out as #
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>>I changed the program to send a chr(156) instead but that is coming out as an underscore now.
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>>I've tried printing a test line of £'s from a DOS box (Under W95) but the £ just appears to be being ignored.
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>>Tried printing a test line of £'s from Linux and that works fine.