Hi Laurence,

There's really no way of knowing from what you've posted what the best way
to handle this might be. All we know is that you've got some data and you
want to print labels from it. Excel, Word, Access may all be suitable, so
too could postscript, PCL, VB, etc, etc. The right tool for the job depends
on what has to be done, who's doing it and what tools they're comfortable
working with.

For starters:
.. what format are the data in - eg a delimited file, stored in a data stream
at the end of your code?
.. what current applications/programming languages are you familiar with, and
do you have any preferences?

Cheers

--
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


"Laurence Lombard" wrote in message
...
I have a small DOS program written in PASCAL that prints labels on a
tractor feed dot matrix printer that does not work in WinXP anymore. I
have
two questions:

1. The program worked perfectly in Win98 but in WinXP it only prints once
the program is closed. The Printing Troubleshooter refers to this issue
but
does not provide an solution. Can anyone help.

2. Another option is to convert this program to Excel/VBA. In Pascal I
used
the statement writeln(lst... to send data directly to the printer. Is
there
a way to do this in VBA. The normal print functions include form feeds
which
is not what I want.

Some posters refer to Mailmerge and Word, but I would like to keep things
simple.

Thanks
Laurence