>Is this possible with VFP3 or do I need a 3rd party add-on? The type of communications would be with fopen fgets and the like.
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>In the summer of 95 in realized halfway through a project in FP2.6 that the low level file routines didn't work too well and had to buy Comet.

Nope... nothing realy new here except the MS-COMM control
It provides primitives but you'll write a lot of code to
do stuff like xfers etc...
Buy a library - Silvercomm is nice
I too have used comet its great - I think there is a Windows version

Good Luck
Jon