>Hi I have written a small utility to clear down items from a large stock header file and also to clear child records in another 12 or so tables. It's all in Foxpro 2.6 for DOS...
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>During the packing of the tables whilst there is no call to the printer or anything like that I get an error (my lpt1 printer is not connected btw...) - the error is "There was an error found writing to lpt1..." It's as if it's trying to print something periodically? When the utility had finished I had about 16 documents waiting to be printed...
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>Any ideas how to prevent this?

Have you looked at what is trying to be printed, it may give some idea of the cause.