>I was trying to send Escape codes to the printer via VFP report writer and had many problems with this, presumably because VFP takes control of all printer communication during reporting. Finally decided to use another method...
I didn't have any problems when sending printer codes, or text files, to the printer, with "???". Did you try this?
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)