Karen: How are you defining your printer control characters? As you know, they are specific to each printer, although you can use the compatibility mode (Epson, HP or IBM) with most older printers. I have used PAGEMODE extensively under DOS and I generated reports that if memory served, printed correctly when the report was copied to LPT1 under Windows. You can look at the file using a plain text editor (Notepad) and verify that the control characters are indeed making it to the file. When I worked with PAGEMODE and DOS, I created a table (printer_codes) that stored the settings (bold, compressed, portrait, etc) for all the printers that I used,. Before running PAGEMODE, I run a file that checked to see which printer was being used and then read the setting for that printer from the printer_codes table and defined variables with these settings; I would then place the variables (vcomp, vbold, vportrait, etc.) in the proper place in the report within PAGEMODE and it worked great. I hope this information is of help Javier,
Javier Valencia, PE President Valencia Technology Group, L.L.C. 14315 S. Twilight Ln., Suite #14 Olathe, KS 66062-4571 (913)829-0888 (913)649-2904 FAX -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of tellef Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 7:31 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Pagemode in Windows I haven't tried Pagemode in Windows up til now. I have an old email (from RBWin 6.5) that says by using a 'zip command.com' to copy the file to lpt1, that it 'will preserve all printer and font settings'. Hmm... Doesn't for me. I outputed to a file, had a bold on and a bold off variable that I did using a 'write' to the file. It ignores them. Anyone successful in doing that? Karen
