>>It's always the same thing. The modem blinks at the PortOpen command and that's it. It worked twice out of 40 tries. The modem is fine. I can send faxes from Word and all is well. Even if it does not in VFP, I just switch to Word to do a test and it always work. However, I can't understand why OutBufferCount returns 0 right after the OutPut line. Isn't it suppose to contain to number of bytes waiting to be sent?
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>It would depend on how quickly the data was sent, at 9600 baud it's around 1ms per character. If the default baud rate is higher, then it proprtionately quicker.
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>Are you sure the baud rate & parity setting are suitable for the modem - if the receive lights are flashing on the modem, then something is being sent - if the settings are wrong then the modem will be seeing garbage. Having said that, a lot of modern modems will match their baud rate automatically.
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>Try sending a few CHR(13)'s first - the modem buffer may have garbage in it.

Well, putting a messagebox after each line sent to the modem works. I'll do that.