>>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.
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>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
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Jon,

Have you tried Comet for Dos with VFP? I wonder if it works? It should, shouldn't it?