>and it works!!
>best - john

Psst...so does DIRPRTCLASS, much better in fact:

SET PROCEDURE TO DIRPRTCLASS ADDITIVE
oPrint = CREATEOBJ('DirectPrintOutput')
oPrint.PrinterOpen('LPT3:')
IF oPrint.PrinterIsOpen()
   ? oPrint.SpoolFile('J:\Random\File\ToPrint')       && spools a copy
   ? oPrint.SpoolFile('J:\Random\File\ToPrint', .T.)  && spools it and deletes it afterwards
ENDIF
oPrint.PrinterOpen('\\SomeComputer\PrintQueueName')
? oPrint.SpoolFile('C:\I can really be annoying\when I name a file.txt')
oPrint.PrinterClose()

...and that's just what the SpoolFile() method does....

Trust me on this one.