You probably should take a serious look at Flagship on Linux. It allows you
to run Clipper applications in Linux, which support all those telnet
and ftp features by default. Probably much better than going after VFP.

> >the application now is written in clipper - dos (showing its age and
> year 2000 issues). we would very much like to develop this
> in visual foxpro since all of our other apps have been converted
> or will be shortly to vfp6. a peek at the clipper code revealed
> many low level I/O funcions. VFP6 doesnt seem to have these capablilites.