Tracy,
Could you wrap these programs with a SET PRINTER TO < FileName > and then send the file to the printer with something like RawPrint or dirPrtClass?

>Hi Rodd,
>What did you finally do to resolve this issue? I have the same problem. When I issue the first ??? no matter whether it is ??? " " or ??? followed by printer codes, the page ejects. After that, whenever I issue a new ??? it ejects a page. I have too many .prgs using ? 'text to print' to redo in a short period of time. Some are quite lenghthy contracts that have bold commands spread throughout the text to be printed too which forces a pageeject with ???, but it would take forever to redo them all.
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>Tracy
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>We have a legacy DOS system. For various reasons, we're trying to recomplie our DOS code in VFP. (I know, it's ugly and not recommended but I don't have time to explain our reasoning.) Anyhow, everything seems to work fine except the use of ??? to send control codes to the printer.
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>>For some reason, the first use of ??? causes a page eject. After that initial ???, all the other uses of ??? work fine.
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>>You can see this from the command window with the following:
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>>set printer to name getprinter() && select your printer
>>set printer on
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>>? "This is line 1"
>>??? (control code)
>>? "This is line 2"
>>??? (control code)
>>? "This is line 3"
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>>set printer off
>>set printer to
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>>In that example, the first line would print, the page would eject and then the next two lines would print ... each line being affected by the preceding printer control code.
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>>Has anyone out there found a way to get ??? to work in VFP or have a clue as to what might be happening?
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>>Thanks for whatever help you can offer!
>>
>>Rodd
>>
>>P.S. Just to set your mind at ease, we don't plan to run this DOS/VFP hybrid forever ... it's just a stop gap for an already swamped programming team. 8?)