>A big thanks to all those who offered suggestions for creating an ASCII viewer as well as for printing reports correctly in a dot matrix printer. I am happy to report that we now have a solution that works for us. At the moment it is based on Codemine classes, but as soon as possible I'll change to basic VFP classes and post it.
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>Special thanks to Plinio Fermin who offered a key suggestion: keep editing reports with FP DOS 2.6 instead of migrating them, which would change them to VFP format. Maybe VFP 9.0 will solve that.
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>The other key point is to use the RTF box to view the ASCII report, instead of the edit box, which doesnt have a horizontal scrollbar.
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>Alex

How about Wordpad ?

Since you are dealing with this kind of reporting you might find some use of my 'CodeRep' tool here in downloads. You can create txt reports directly in code and preview them/print with wordpad .
By tweaking class littlebit you can also produce dot-matrix reports very easy.
I did not make subclass for dot-matrix printing simply because we don't use them any more.
But meny people still do.
Have look at it when u hv time :)

Rgds+