>>I cobbled together a short PRG from several examples I found here at the UT to test sending faxes using the MS Fax Printer. Everything works till the send then I get the error (see code). I checked and the REPORT.TIF file can be opened in MS Paint as a .TIF file and it looks ok.
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>Hi John,
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>It's not clear where the problem is. To narrow it down I would try to send tiff file created by some other method to see if faxing code doesn't work or VFP creates "incorrect" file.

Sergey,
thanks for the reply and for the reply about Trim mode for character expressions a week or so ago.

I spent some time on the message boards and there are a number of exampes that show sending a plain text file. The line:

loFaxDocument = loFaxServer.createdocument(lcTempFile)

apparently converts the text into the desired format. There were some posts about the same error message claiming that it worked until service pack 2 was installed on Win XP. Problem is that I can't get it to run on my old Win 2K PC. It just hangs in the same place. That PC has all the MS Patches though.
I guess I will have to stick with WinFax Pro.