YES!!

Thanks so much for your help Ed! That did it. I tried the same CopyFile syntax but just chose a queue on our server with a much shorter name and it worked great.

I do have a further question for you though, if you have the time and patience for it. 8?)

I tried (on the Win9x client) to use net use to connect lpt1 to the shortened queue:
net use lpt1 \\ntm_2001\dataproc

That returned the Error 53 message (network path can't be located). (Funny, cuz that network path worked fine for the CopyFile() function).

Since that didn't work, I instead captured lpt1 to dataproc. I then tried the CopyFile() function again with the following syntax:

? copyfile("c:\temp\rodd.txt","LPT1:",0)

However, this returns a 0 and GetLastError returns 87 again. Up to this point I've been assuming that LPT1 was a sort of system defined parm ... that the system used the string LPT1 as a parm to reference the actual port. Am I wrong? Do I explicitly have to set up a system variable LPT1 somewhere?

Once again, thanks for all your help! The whole issue of the length of the queue name was a major breakthrough!

Rodd