Hello Leland,
It is probably not that Windows was insisting that everything go through the print manager, but that some of the printers you were encountering were "Windows Only" printers, or GDI printers (Tracy just mentioned this to Nadya in this thread).
>Hi Nadya,
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>After FoxPro was ported to windows, it became more and more difficult to use ??? to configure a printer, as windows insisted that everything being printed go through its print manager.
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Steve Gibson