Hi Mike,

A "launcher", also called a "loader", is a very small program which does the following:
1. Check if the local file(s) are older than the server files
2. If yes to 1, copy the new files from the server to the local machine
3. Often the program also does some other stuff, like making sure that local directories exist and so on
4. Start the local EXE. For logical reasons, the local EXE always another name than the "loader" application.

If done properly, the "loader" program never changes. Personally my loader program scans a Visual FoxPro table which contains instructions of what to do, and which program to start.

Search for Loader in the download section for some ready made ones.

>Mike:
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>It seems like 3 eons since I have heard from you.
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>Have you had any meetings of the Toronto VFP users group? I am actually migrating slowly away from VFP toward web development with PHP and MySql. I use Dreamwaver for my basic web development. PHP is something like C#. I hate the language but it seems to be the least of all evils for data based web development.
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>Anyway, what to you mean by "use a launcher"?
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>Mike Smith