Sherry,

>I am sorry about that, I see what I did when I post the code, I did make a typo. I my was correct when I ran it in the command line. This command works in VB but not VFP. is there a command that I can use in VFP to create an image file ? thanks

I tested at home tonight on my Win NT 4 system, and had to start out with a different application object because I didn't have "imaging.application":

oApp=CREATEOBJECT("wangimage.application")

On the next line I got the same error 87 until I tried without passing the 1 as a parameter:

oImg=oApp.CreateImageViewerObject()

That may just be a difference in the version I have, but you might try it without the parameter to see if it gives you any joy. It worked for me, and allowed me to successfully

oImg.open("c:\file.bmp")

When you say it works fine in VB, do you mean on the same computer that it fails in VFP, or on different computers?