You have to tell program to use one of the fonts that includes "boxes", like FoxFont/FoxPrint or Terminal. If you have access to the source code than you can try to use
SET PRINTER FONT Terminal
>Hi all:
>
>I have an old Foxpro shareware program that prints calendars. Since upgrading my computer, the program prints out funny characters rather than lines.
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>The relevant code in the program seems to be:
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>private m.boxchars
>dimension boxchars[11]
>boxchars[ 1]=iif(m.nonlndraw,"+","Ú")
>boxchars[ 2]=iif(m.nonlndraw,"+","Â")
>boxchars[ 3]=iif(m.nonlndraw,"+","¿")
>boxchars[ 4]=iif(m.nonlndraw,"+","Ã")
>boxchars[ 5]=iif(m.nonlndraw,"+","Å")
>boxchars[ 6]=iif(m.nonlndraw,"+","´")
>boxchars[ 7]=iif(m.nonlndraw,"+","À")
>boxchars[ 8]=iif(m.nonlndraw,"+","Á")
>boxchars[ 9]=iif(m.nonlndraw,"+","Ù")
>boxchars[10]=iif(m.nonlndraw,"-","Ä")
>boxchars[11]=iif(m.nonlndraw,"|","³")
>
>My printer is a NEC Superscript 1450 and as far as I remember, it worked on my old system.
>
>Thanks for any help.
>
>Yossi Gourarie
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