>>Thanks Bill, I'd download this remarkable fll yesterday. If it does what you want, and you don't mind a 160K .fll (which are not re-entrant - you can't use em twice on the same PC) then it's surely the way to go :-)
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>FOCUS.FLL can be used by several applications simultaneously, and by several instances of the same program without getting into any kind of trouble.I just wanted to add some clarity in that.
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>I use FOCUS.FLL to control industrial processes running under Windows NT and Windows 95. More than 15 applications run concurrently and they all call FOCUS.FLL or its KERNEL.DLL directly. The only limitation is that the library can't be easily multi-threaded because it was all designed for FoxPro right from the start, then I've turned it to work with VFP3 and finally with VFP5. As you know, VFP is single-threaded and I never succeeded creating additional threads, specific to FOCUS.FLL, without disturbing VFP (that is to generate GPF).
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>Also, the sources of FOCUS.FLL are all available and I would be delighted if more people got into it to extend the library, to make it run smoother ... in one word, to make it better. We all have little treasures we are proud of and I really feel we can easily share these with others.
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>I hope that this gives some light.
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>Pat

Thank you for the clarification Pat. Your work on this is truly awesome! I just might throw away most of my own procedure library now :-)