>Title says it all.
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>I know that Hallogram has CommTools but is there a free alternative? What are the other choices?
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>Any source code that I can look at that's already available somewhere?
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>Do I need an activeX? MsComm?

Modem-ah
OK -
lets assume you just wanna slam out a file to another computer that is 'set up' to receive files via modem on some point to point stuff.

I would suggest using COMMTOOLS in VFP at each client workstation, and send the files out via zmodem protocol to some 'server'-type computer that is
running a BBS or something similar . NO FTP required here. There are public domain implementations of zmodem code base that you can include in a vfp app - but its a lot o coding - I would equate my time in coding for two days to a single purchase of CommTools, but YMMV.

You can set up a private Opus BBS in your client's data center, and have flagged tasks that run back on the BBS box based on some event [say a successful file transfer from a member of the file-transfer group] that will trigger a compiled VFP app [without any gui] that will read the files and process them back into the big data respository in your client's site.

You can also add modems into an OPUS box, and have anywhere from 2 to 16 modems hanging off o that.

IF you don't like OPUS as a BBS, then suggest you look at TSX-32 from sandh.com [net?] and use that instead.