Hi Rolf,

>... but both my VFP5 Language Ref and the VFP6 Hel actually says
Function FOPEN() opens file or commport...

That's just a hold-over from the FPDOS days when you actually could do that. But, as Garrett points out, the help has finally been corrected.

~~Bonnie


>Hi Craig,
>
>Yes, you're right, but both my VFP5 Language Ref and the VFP6 Hel actually says
>Function FOPEN() opens file or commport, and says
>
>cFileName: Specifies the name of the file or communications port to open.'
>
>Well, I checked the sample pointed at by Sergey, and it worked straight away.
>
>But, I wonder if you could point at some sample code that might be useful for me to learn a little more about how to do it?
>
>Rolf