Hi Al!

>In general you don't print to a printer in the Novell environment, you print to the queue. The printer is set up to service the queue (or a print server sends the job to the printer).
>
>The queue(s) should definitely be available to CAPTURE (I can't remember if you still use that command in NDPS or if there's something new). IOW you should be able to do something like

* In your environment, prior to firing up VFP
>CAPTURE L=1 Q=<i>Tree.OrganizationalUnit.Server.Queue</i> TI=5
>
>* In VFP:
>COPY FILE < filename > TO LPT1
>

All I know is that the IT folks here, who I have limited faith, say they will no longer make queues for the printers, that Novell created NDPS and that windows applications are supposed to print directly to them. (They also say that something called IPrint is on its way and the printers will only have an IP address at that point, continuing not to make queues.) There are several laser printers that are setup this way. They don't have a queue and applications like WORD and EXCEL are able to print to them. VFP is also able to print reports to these devices directly. My difficulty is getting a file created by AutoCad, a PLT print file, and COPY FILE it to the NDPS print device and produce a map rather than sheets of characters.

I will explore CAPTURE further and will gladly take any other suggestions.

Thanks!!