Hi Patrick,
Fox has SOOOOO many ways to do things! Glad to help.
>>
>>PMFJI,
>>I see you have other answers but the way I've done this (with simple text files) is:

type (lc_Source_File_Spec) to printer prompt

>>hth,
>>
>>>have seen examples that indicated you could specify a printer name
>>>in the STRTOFILE command and send a string to the specified printer.
>>>
>>>i tried the following, but instead of sending the output to the
>>>selected printer, the output was sent to a file (in the current
>>>directory). of course the filename is the name of the
>>>printer that i specified.
>>>
>>>

>>>lc_Printer_Name = ALLTRIM(GETPRINTER())
>>>lc_File_Contents = FILETOSTR(lc_Source_File_Spec)
>>>ln_Chars = STRTOFILE( lc_File_Contents , lc_Printer_Name , .T. )
>>>

>>>
>>>how can i get it to go to the printer ?
>
>Biiiilllllll !!!!
>
>Thanks for jumping in. I've used VFP for a couple years, and didn't
>know there was a TYPE command. And all the time, I was cussing the
>FoxPro team for not providing a command to do such a oft-needed function.
>Ha ! And I searched the help for 'displaying' a text file, 'printing'
>a text file, etc. etc. But I didn't search for 'type' a file.
>
>thanks again !!