>I have a system that will require VFP to sit
>around all day and execute commands including
>telephone transfers of files at prescribed times.
>Does anyone have general methodology suggestions
>for acomplishing this?

Look at system timers to call code to read setup files. Timers cause VFP to look at a Table to compare Time() with that in a table & wether the task was completed. If not done then other VFP code is called to do the task.

HTH
Tom