>>>In Win2000 aprinters() does not return the name of network printers, but the printer port. This is prefixed with '\\'. If I populate a list box with the array created by aprinters these printers appear in the list but are disabled (as well as dropping one of the '\'s.)
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>>>Can anyone tell me how to make the printers appear correctly and enabled? By the way is there any sane reason that '\' is used to disable an item in a list box rather than '\<' as everywhere else in VFP?
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>>Check this thread: Forum: Visual FoxPro Category: Coding, syntax & commands Title: Re: ADDLISTITEM and doublebackslash '\\' Thread #544910 Message #545143
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>Too late :)

Damn it! I went to your contribution, found this thread in the second list, saved it, started to reply, found, that my buffer didn't contain this thread, went back, back, saved again, then replied and therefore lost two minutes! :)