>I have a client that has a dbase 3 / visual foxpro hybrid that I am about to fix. He has several set printer to lpt1....set printer on...?,?,?
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>his network support can't seem to get the login scripts to always net use the printers. I, of course, said I could bypass that. So, I went in and changed the print commands to set printer to \\spooler\laser1.
>The "report" went there but it was not oriented correctly. When I switched back to LPT1, it worked corrrectly.
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>Why did I loose my printer commands?

First guess is that the printer driver in Windows assigned to LPT1 is set for the proper orientation. Sending the print job to \\spooler\laser1 will bypass the driver and use whatever printer setup commands are in the report form.

See Knowledge Base article Q133163 for some tips.