Jim ---
You are right. I messed up. I was more thinking about the middle-tier. See you at conference today?
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>I may have something amiss in my understanding of things, but what sense would making the back-end an OLE-DLL make??? Seems to me it would serve exactly one user.
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>>>Is it possible to pass a object ref to an out of proc exe. I am trying to determine the best method of transporting data in a 3-tier client server ( all 3-tiers are vfp) system.
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>>You middle and backend tiers should be OLE DLLs and not out-of-process EXEs. If they are OLE DLLs, then, yes.
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John Koziol, ex-MVP, ex-MS, ex-FoxTeam. Just call me "X"
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro" - Hunter Thompson (Gonzo) RIP 2/19/05