>It appears to me that if the tag and tag2 fields are empty then the settings in expr have little or no meaning. If I want to print an 11" form and then print a 14" form I have to reset the printer length to 14 inches. I was unsuccessful in doing this if tag2 was empty. Tag must do something and I would like to know what it is so that I don't get a nasty surprise when 5% or 10% of my customers lose the ability to print! My ultimate goal is to be able to print nonstandard papersized forms programatically. I would imagine that VFP9, with the new report writer will be able to do this, but at this time I can't even move up to VFP8 because a number of my users still have Win95 machines.
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>What I really find hard to believe is that 15 years after starting to use Fox (FoxBase+), I have less control over the printer than I had in the beginning.

Unfortunately it is the "stable" problem with printers when special settings needed, and especially with old ones used to work in DOS.
Probably you could (as in old DOS times) use a special "printer settings" table containing tag and tag2 for all printers you expect your users may have. Then you could use this table to create/update the report frx file dynamically in the code as needed for the current printer.