Phew - my thinking was OK for a change!

Yes, I'll be there.

Cheers,

Jim N

>Jim ---
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>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.