>1. Purchase a parallel- or serial-port printer.

Not practical. Customer usally buys a printer & then informs us.

>2. Upgrade to Windows 2000 or XP. In addition to letting you use NET USE it gives greater stability and lower cost of ownership.

But if its a P1 with less than 64 MB RAM.

>3. Create a VFP app and use it to print your report or file(s), perhaps making use of Ed Rauh's DIRPRTCLASS (download#9957) or a third-party utility like http://download.com.com/3000-2070-1526407.html?tag=lst-0-8

We are hiring new staff for the conversion to FPW or VFP.

>4. If you search at http://download.cnet.com using the search string "dos print" you get several hits for spoolers that claim to let you print to Windows-only printers from DOS applications.

I'll check out

Rakesh