Did my suggestion to you of setting _PLINENO to 0 before printing have any effect?
Just curious.

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>We have a legacy DOS system. For various reasons, we're trying to recomplie our DOS code in VFP. (I know, it's ugly and not recommended but I don't have time to explain our reasoning.) Anyhow, everything seems to work fine except the use of ??? to send control codes to the printer.
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>For some reason, the first use of ??? causes a page eject. After that initial ???, all the other uses of ??? work fine.
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>You can see this from the command window with the following:
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>set printer to name getprinter() && select your printer
>set printer on
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>? "This is line 1"
>??? (control code)
>? "This is line 2"
>??? (control code)
>? "This is line 3"
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>set printer off
>set printer to
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>In that example, the first line would print, the page would eject and then the next two lines would print ... each line being affected by the preceding printer control code.
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>Has anyone out there found a way to get ??? to work in VFP or have a clue as to what might be happening?
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>Thanks for whatever help you can offer!
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>Rodd
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