Personally, I prefer to use "?" and "??" instead of "@...say". I created wrapper methods for these, that include counting lines, columns and pages. See my Download#9991 for a complete reporting class, based on "?" and "??".

HTH, Hilmar.

>Anyone,
>
>I have written a report using the raw mode of vfp6 by writing the following syntax:
>
>set console off
>set devi to print
>if (preview - literally speaking)
> repofile=sys(3)+".txt"
> set print to &repofile
>endi
>set print on
>??? " "
>@ 0,0 say chr(15) && to print 15cpi
>...
>...@ prow(),pcol() say "xxxxx"
>...
>@ 0,0 say chr(18) && to return to 10cpi
>set print to
>set print off
>set devi to screen
>set conso on
>if preview
> modi comm &repofile
>endi
>
>The printing works fine but it ejects the first page of any printer output I choose. It is desired that the first page of my report will be the first page not a blank page. Thank you very much in advance for the help.