You can use VFP data files over a WAN, but you'll have to decide whether the performance is sufficient for your application. This isn't really an MS issues. In fact, VFP is probably the best desktop database to use over a WAN. VFP's excellent indexing scheme allows VFP to pull relativley small parts of the indexes over the wire when doing a query. With some desktop databases the whole index or even the whole table has to come over the wire to do a query. In order to get the best performance over a WAN, you'll need a server database.

>hi ed - ok - is my answer to use a SQL server? Is using VFP data files
>on a WAN a bit to much to ask from MS?