thanks Borislv, I'll test your code and let you know though it looks like it is what I was looking for :-)
Have a merry Xmas and a happy new year
Alessio

>Seting Copies=2,3... in report it make report run once (I think so, not tested) & leave all other job to printer driver.
>
>Ex:
>

> repo_name = SYS(2015)
> STRTOFILE(FILETOSTR("Myreport.FRX"), repo_name+".FRX",0)
> STRTOFILE(FILETOSTR("Myreport.FRT"), repo_name+".FRT",0)
> old_alias = ALIAS()
> SELECT 0
> USE (repo_name+".FRX")
> GO TOP
> at_copies = AT("COPIES=", Expr)
> tmp_expr  = LEFT(Expr, at_copies+6)+TRANSFORM(YourNumberOfCopies)
> tmp_expr2 = SUBSTR(Expr, at_copies+6)
> tmp_expr2 = SUBSTR(tmp_expr2, AT(CHR(13)+CHR(10),tmp_expr2))
> REPLACE Expr WITH tmp_expr+tmp_expr2
> USE
> SELECT (old_alias)
> REPORT FORM (repo_name) ....
> ERASE (repo_name+".*")
>

>
>>the Setting the page field to a value greater than one make the report running that numer of times or just leave the job to the printer ?
>>Anyway how should I use this strtofile command, make me an example please.
>>Thanks Borislav
>>
>>>No I afraid, because then Report is ReadOnly. You must extract it from EXE using STRTOFILE(FILETOSTR(...)...) before change it.