>We need the ASCII param in REPORT FORM to tell VFP to IGNORE the printer driver and create text output according to the settings _ASCIICOLS and _ASCIIROWS, not according to whatever printer driver happens to be current.
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>As it is now, different printer drivers produce different ASCII text output. This is both stupid and absurd.

i had a heck of a time getting it to do what i wanted. luckily it was just a few reports that i needed to
save to ascii text. for those i ended up using fopen & fputs and low level writing the report. its a pain
but at least i knew what the output would be.