Christian;
Any system in general is as fast as the slowest part of it, and in the case of WANs, the bottleneck is the WAN (or LANs for that matter). If performance is an issue with you application, then you may want to focus on the improving the data transfered over the WAN in compressed format, rather than using a mechanisem that is not efficient in that area.

Kia

>I have to set the record straight on something I posted earlier:
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>My methodology for passing arrays back from OLE Server objects worked when the server object was on the same machine, but crashed when the server object was on a remote machine. When on a remote machine I could not pass an object type variable as a parameter, got an OLE error "class not registered". The same function call succeeded when the parameters were changed to arrays, character, numeric or logical data. Can't pass object variables to methods of a REMOTE automation object.
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>I'll be working on a work-around.
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