Thanks Ed...

>There arre some samples here on UT in the Files Section showing simple >interaction with the MSCOMM32 control; you might try those.

I'll check those out.


>My advice is to get VFP entirely out of the communications loop.

okay

>You can use on of the native dial-up networking services like RAS

I don't think this will work. I don't have control over the remote machine.




>talking to a different type of system that won't support RAS-like connects

Right!

> you'll probably find a package like CommTools,


I'd heard of CommTools. But was hoping to spend 8 hours instead of $300 bucks.

>using a scriptable communications product like Telix or ProComm to handle >this, launching the comm package with an appropriate script from VFP.

I may consider ProComm or Hilgraeve's DataACCess. I used procomm 2 with Fox2.6 on an earlier version of this app, but reliability was occassionally problematic -- due in part to 2.6, ProComm 2.0 and ,no doubt, my poor error handling 5 years ago.

Thanks for your help. Any furthur ideas, sendem along.

best...

ken