>I have a report which the client wishes to print on continuous paper through a tractor feed on an epson LX-80, The problem is the paper height is only 5.5" (half of A4) which is not avaliable as either a standard or custom set up for this printer. The report prints fine but then feeds through a blank sheet and ends up on the top of the following sheet. Is there a way of setting an absolute length for a print out. I recall doing something similar in 2.6 but cannot find the report....

Hi There
I think that u hv to set exact page size in inches via printer control codes.
You can do that using ?/??/??? commands.

See printer manual for exact control codes. Page lenght can be specified.
I used to do this succesfully back in 1999 with VFP6 / W98.

set printer to name (getprinter())
.
.

set printer to 
??? &cControlCodeWithInches 

*Real codes look something like this ;

set printer to     
*** set the pitch
      ??? chr(15)

      *** Set up the page length
      ??? chr(27)+chr(67)+chr(0)+chr(3)

etc


Rgds++