>I wasn't aware of the ??? command. I suspect this is the missing ingredient for me.
"Sends output directly to the printer." - seems to bypass the Windows printer driver. For instance, if I omit (forget, or on purpose) to send
chr(12) (form-feed for Epson dot-matrix printers), the printer just stays on the middle of the page.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)