>>>>I am currently printing a few hundred reports(via DO...WHILE loop) to a remote directory (\\REMOTE\temp\) for printing at a later time. The remote machine is running Win98 and the directory is shared. The problem I have is that, until I access the directory thru Windows Explorer, the reports are "pretending" to print, but never make it there. As soon as I open the folder the reports immediately start being created. Has anyone else seen this?
>>>You can try to create a temp file before you do printing:

>>>lcPath = "\\Remote\temp\"
>>>lcTempName = SYS(2015)
>>>=strtofile("Testing", lcPath + lcTempName)
>>>Erase (lcPath + lcTempName)

>>>
>>>Maybe it will help.
>>
>>Nope, that didn't work. The temp file was never created in the remote directory.
>
>You can try to map remote directory to a local name.
>It can be done dynamically using WSH
>

>oNet = CREATEOBJECT("WScript.Network")
>oNet.MapNetworkDrive("Z:", "\\REMOTE\temp\")
>* Do printing to Z:\filename
>oNet.RemoveNetworkDrive("Z:")

That worked, but why? Is there a way to tell which drive letters are already used, so I can pick one that is for sure not used? Thank you for your help.