Mike,

It's FPW not closing out the printjob. You should always do:

set printer to ...
set printer on
... ?? stuff goes here
set printer off
set printer to

This will cause FPW to close the printjob as far as the OS is concerned.

>I've been asked to relay a question about a FoxPro DOS app that prints to a recipet printer using SET PRINTER and ??.
>
>When printing, it delays the output of the printer by several minutes on NT/2000/XP but not on 9x/ME. I think they said it has somethign to do with the Spooler holding on to it but I don't remeber for sure.