Sorry- autoquote was turned off...there's a lot of smoke in the air here in Denver today - must be affecting my cognition! ;-) See below for comments.

>If the process consists only of sending one line at a time, you may use FGET(). This doesn't require a length parameter. It will take one line at a time. However, this does not add the carriage return.
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>So, using either that approach of FREAD(), you may have to either add a carriage return or to extend it to 129 bytes.

This is fine except for one client who sends all in a blob with no cr's. I can test for the length of a line and deal with it that way, I guess.

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>But, then again, it's not clear if the problem is local or on the server. Where is it? Have you identified if the problem is not sending the proper string or if the server receives it ok but it's within the interpretation that the problem is?
I don't think it's the client as I get the identical string whether calling from ASP.NET or from VFP.

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>It seems here you're using a Web Service for a socket type communication. Is that what you are trying to achieve?

I'm not sure of this. I must admit I've never had to transmit file contents over a remote connection (FTP excluded), so if there's a better way, I'm open to ideas.