This sounds silly, but should be easy to try...

what if your second @SAY... test restarts at @01,... It seems to me that additive is for such cases and possibly VFP7 won't have the same problem.

good luck


>That works, but the printer ejects a blank page even when sent to a file. Plus we have literally hundreds of prgs coded with @...say that worked in FPD26 of course, but now the additive keyword does not work with VFP7 and using @...say.
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>Tracy
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>*The below should be the first two lines of test.txt
>set PRINTER TO test.txt
>set DEVICE TO printer
>set print on
>? 'this is test1.'
>? 'this is the 2nd line from the first printing.'
>set DEVICE TO screen
>set PRINTER to
>set print off
>*The following should be appended to the file test.txt
>*but it overwrites it instead.
>set PRINTER TO test.txt additive
>set DEVICE TO printer
>set print on
>? 'this is test2.'
>? 'this is the 4th line from the 2nd printing.'
>set DEVICE TO screen
>set PRINTER to
>set print off
>MODIFY COMMAND test.txt
>

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>>>IS the additive keyword not accepted in VFP7? It does not work. No matter what, when printing to a file, it overwrites the information. In the below code, the 2nd printing overwrites the first instead of appending it as the HELP states is should. Any ideas?
>>>
>>>

>>>*The below should be the first two lines of test.txt
>>>set PRINTER TO test.txt
>>>set DEVICE TO printer
>>>@1,0 say 'this is test1.'
>>>@2,0 say 'this is the 2nd line from the first printing.'
>>>set DEVICE TO screen
>>>set PRINTER to
>>>
>>>*The following should be appended to the file test.txt
>>>*but it overwrites it instead.
>>>set PRINTER TO test.txt additive
>>>set DEVICE TO printer
>>>@3,0 say 'this is test2.'
>>>@4,0 say 'this is the 4th line from the 2nd printing.'
>>>set DEVICE TO screen
>>>set PRINTER to
>>>

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>>What happens if you replace each "@...SAY" with "?" ?