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John A quick update on Calculator. Calculator reuires the following elements to run: DTSCUSTOM.DLL, OKNA.DLL and OKNAINTL.DLL must be in the same directory as TAPECALC.EXE, and WIN.INI must contain a section and line (such as [DeskTop Set] plus Data=C:\WINDOWS\DESKTOP) pointing to where CALC.OPT is stored and where LAST.TAP is or will be stored. TAPECALC.EXE is clearly the program itself, and LAST.TAP is the last session, if saved. CALC.OPT contains the interface elements established by File/Setup…, etc. DTSCUSTOM.DLL appears to contain only the pointing finger, insofar as it relates to Calculator, although that is duplicated in TAPECALC.EXE. OKNA.DLL contains a great variety of elements, such as the dialog boxes used by Calculator to say that printing has been started, is being abandoned, etc., (these dialog boxes are used by all the modules) plus 'string tables' (although none seem to relate to Calculator), and the hammer icon. OKNAINTL.DLL seems to related only to Calendar, dates and names of days. That's a long way of saying, I don't think there is a print configuration option for Calculator. Your memory of speaking to Konstantin is probably correct: that what is printed is simply a text dump, and that the configuration has to be done at the printer. For what it's worth, my HP Series II with Windows Printing System prints correctly in portrait orientation. I remember Konstantin commenting publicly some time ago that the frustration with developing and supporting Calculator is that HP puts out top of the line calculator products for $50 RRP. For 'advanced' number crunchers, that's obviously the way to go; for infrequent 1+1=?-types, Windows' Calculator is probably satisfactory. But then there are users like yourself or myself, who require more than one but less than the other. I'm sorry you've got stuck in the middle; personally (and I hope I don't hurt any feelings) I never liked DTS' Calculator. I thought it was a little guady looking and a little inflexible. I think Norton's product is much better, and fulfills my needs exactly. I'm sorry I can't be of more help on this. If you have any programming ability, I hope you will seriously consider my previous suggestion of 'acquiring' Calculator, although I honestly have no idea how such a suggestion would be received (I'm married to an attorney, so I assume everything is negotiable, particularly if it no longer has 'value' to the owner). Good luck, and perhaps more info will be forthcoming from Konstantin, either when one of the Okna folk speak to him, or when he returns. David