>I will be downloading information from a BBS on a regular
>basis. I am presently using an older version of Procomm Plus
>for Windows to do this.
>
>I need to capture the downloaded file attributes and compare
>them to what actually was downloaded (could be a bad data
>transmission).
>
>Is anyone out there doing something similar in an unattended
>automated fashion? Perhaps it is time to consider using a
>more updated communications package that works well with VFP.
>
>Any recommendations?

You could use MSCOMM control. I use it for serial port communication. Very stable and easy to set up.