Sorry, I misundersood what you initially said about not using ??? ever again. This kind of defeats the whole purpose of what we're trying to accomplish.

Our DOS programs have ??? scattered throughout the print programs (turning on and off bolding, underlining, etc.). That works great in the DOS realm.

Now, we want to (with the least amount of work) reuse that code (temporarily at least) in VFP. We know we can change our code to remove all uses of ??? and get things to run, but that would require quite a bit of work. So, what I'm actually looking for is solutions that would allow us to leave our ??? in place and continue to run.

So far, the CopyFile() suggestion that was initially made by John seems to be a positive direction. His suggestion actually allows us to run all our print programs exactly the way they are, ??? and all. We simply print it all to a file and then copy the file via CopyFile() API function to the print queue.

This has worked slick on our Win2k clients ... still having trouble with Win9x.

Thanks for your suggestion though. And yes, had I followed your directions explicitly (never using ??? again) things would work correctly.