>Hi Everyone!
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>Just a quick question I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on.
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>I am working with a Foxpro application that was converted from 2.6 to VFP. The developer that did so didn't convert the report forms though. He told the company that there were problems with report forms in VFP and it would be better to leave them in 2.6.
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>I personally have converted and rewritten many applications from 2.6 to VFP and have never had a problem with report forms. Has anyone else ever heard about this or is it an urban legend?? :)
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>Thanks for the input!

I would recommend keeping the old reports (and even maintaining them with FoxPro/DOS) if you need fast printing in text-mode, to a dot-matrix printer (Epson printers are quite popular over here).

In this particular case, VFP reports are not at all appropriate; while you can use the ASCII clause, it takes a lot of experimenting to allign data correctly.

Of course, you could redesign your text-reports, for example, with my download #9991 - but I would recommend this tool only for new reports; old reports would have to be rewritten completely. Just keeping the old-style reports requires almost no additional work.

Apart from the case of fast printing in text-mode, I don't see any advantage in the old-style reports.