>Edward,
>
>In VB DoEvents() is intended to surrender control from your (possibly
>ill-behaved) to the OS so that other things can happen. it sort of seems
>t owork, but never in the way you think it will.
>
>As far as VFP is concerned, here's a guess...
>
>Is the fax stuff 16 or 32 bit? I suspect the former.
>
>Try setting AutoYield to .t., just for the form you use to call the
>faxing code.
>After you call the faxing code issue a DOEVENTS.
>Immediately after the DOEVENTS, issue INKEY(30) which will put VFP into
>a wait state for 30 seconds.
>
>I would guess the loop you are using is firing so rapidly that the FAX
>code doesn't get a chance.
>
>Finally - turn on all your logs in NT and find out what processes are
>executing. I'd guess it works in Nt because the fax code gets its own
>thread, so there's lots of time for modems to initialize, dial, etc.
>
>All the above is based on the SWAG principle of programming. Good luck
>
>Miles Thompson
>
>
>>
>> I have a 3rd party class that I am using to fax documents out of
>> Visual
>> Foxpro 5.0. The controls in the class are writen for C++, Delphi and
>> Visual Basic. I can use the classes fine on my NT machine, but when I
>> run
>> it on my Win95 machine, I get a timeout error. The company who wrote
>> the
>> fax class states: "Timeout errors may indicate that your program is
>> not
>> allowing Fax Plus enough time to run, due to too much processing
>> without
>> using DoEvents on occasion." I have not used Foxpro's DoEvent
>> command, and
>> I'm not sure if it is the same as VB's DoEvents. So what I did was
>> place
>> "_VFP.AutoYield = .F." in my startup program. In a loop that forces
>> the
>> program to wait for the faxing to be completed, I placed "DOEVENT", as
>> the
>> product's VB sample shows. When I run the program it just freezes.
>> Is
>> there anyone out there who is familiar with VB who could tell how to
>> permit
>> the contrl enough time to run?
>> Thanks Ed

Thanks. It turns out that the problem was totally unrelated to programming. The Win95 Registry had a corruption in it as relates to the registration of that control.