>Recently a customer discovered that if any of the text being sent out includes the opening curly brace { then I get a syntax error. Try this command:
>??? "{"

A curly brace starts a control code. Sending "{27}{15}" has the same result as sending CHR(27)+CHR(15), but it is easier for a user to enter in a configuration dialog. To print a single curly brace you can use "{123}" instead. You get a syntax error, because VFP is trying to read everything following the open brace as a number.