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FIX: No Generic/Text Only Printer Driver in Windows NT

Article ID: 128203

Article Last Modified on 10/15/2003

Microsoft Visual FoxPro 3.0 Standard Edition
Microsoft FoxPro 2.6a Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q128203

SYMPTOMS

To send the output of a FoxPro report to a text file in FoxPro for Windows, you must use the Generic/Text Only printer driver. However, Microsoft Windows NT does not ship with the Generic/Text Only printer driver or any equivalent drivers.

WORKAROUND

Create a hard-coded report using the ??? "" command to put the printer driver in 'raw' mode and use @..SAY or ? statements to output the data to the file.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This problem has been fixed in Visual FoxPro 5.0 for Windows.

Additional query words: VFoxWin FoxWin Generic ASCII buglist2.60a

Keywords: kbbug kbfix KB128203