It has been found that there is a possible bug in the use of REPORT FORM TO FILE ASCII when the default VFP printer (SET("PRINTER",3) - not the default Windows printer) is the Generic/Text driver. Several other printer drivers cause the same problem. (see Message #744835)

This is a very important command to obtain fast printing from dot-matrix printer.

Sergey suggests as a workaround to SET PRINTER TO NAME {a printer with no problems} before printing and then back to the original. Since customers have different printers it would be useful to be able to create programatically a fake printer with a driver that's appropriate for the workaround and that is sure to be present in every Windows machine.

Does anyone have a suggested way to do this, preferably without using Windows Scripting Host?

TIA,

Alex