>I had a program earlier in foxpro 2.6 under dos, printing thru dos was very fast, i have now shifted the program to vfp but printing under windows is extremely slow. is there any way to directly access the dos driver basically bypassing the windows driver to print directly. also can i use reports and can i give commands like repo form to prin

As long as you keep FoxPro/DOS, you can continue using the reports. They should print in text-mode.

Another possibility is to send output directly to the printer with "???". I do this for a long time.

I just started working with RawPrint (search for RawPrint, in download section), and it works even better.

This will require you to create your report as a text-file. You can send text to a file with "?" and "??", or with "@...SAY". I created a class to automate some of the tasks, but I didn't have the time yet to publish details.

Viele Grüsse, Hilmar.

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