Sergey:

I got it! But it doesn't work for me exactly as advertised.

I could not get the code below to work with reference to "Print" but I got it to work with WIND1.

_VFP.SETVAR("LLPRINTED", WEXIST("WIND1")) && this works

I got WIND1 to work by defining a window as WIND1 then had the PRINT command work through WINDOW WIND1 as below.

DEFINE WINDOW WIND1 FROM 1,3 TO 30,130
REPORT FORM FINES1 TO PRINT PROMPT NOCONSOLE WINDOW WIND1

With these modifications the value of llPrinted is only .t. if the Print process completes.

So I am out of the woods. Thanks for your help.

Mike Smith