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I have left them in DOS for the last N years. After reading the new report writer book I thought how nice it would be to have some of the visual only report writer features. I think I will stick with what I have. Thanks.
Jack
>>I am trying to convert reports from FP DOS and cannot find a font that will still allow me to have 132 columns, be readable, and be able to be distributed to 300 clients. Any thoughts?
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>One option is to keep the old FP DOS report. Use FP DOS for modifications. AFAIK, it runs without problems in FoxPro Windows, or VFP.
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>Another option is to somehow create a text-file, and print in text-mode (this doesn't work on all printers, though). The download section has at least two downloads to assist you in this task.
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>You can also create a normal report and "REPORT ... TO FILE ASCII", but that causes too much trouble, IMO (it is difficult to control the number of spaces each field occupies).
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>HTH, Hilmar.
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