>this should do the trick ..
>

>DECLARE SHORT SQLDrivers IN odbc32;
>    INTEGER   EnvironmentHandle,;
>    INTEGER   Direction,;
>    STRING  @ DriverDescription,;
>    INTEGER   BufferLength1,;
>    INTEGER @ DescriptionLengthPtr,;
>    INTEGER   DriverAttributes,;
>    INTEGER   BufferLength2,;
>    INTEGER   AttributesLengthPtr
>
>
>LOCAL lnRet, lnEnvHandle, lcDriver, lnBufferLen, lnCount, laDrivers[1]
>lnEnvHandle = VAL(SYS(3053))
>lnBufferLen = 1024
>lcDriver = REPLICATE(CHR(0),lnBufferLen)
>lnRet = SQLDrivers(lnEnvHandle, 2, @lcDriver, lnBufferLen, @lnBufferLen, 0, 0, 0)
>
>lnCount = 1
>DO WHILE lnRet = 0
>	DIMENSION laDrivers[lnCount]
>	laDrivers[lnCount] = LEFT(lcDriver,lnBufferLen)
>	lnCount = lnCount + 1
>	lnBufferLen = 1024
>	lcDriver = REPLICATE(CHR(0),lnBufferLen)
>	lnRet = SQLDrivers(lnEnvHandle, 1, @lcDriver, lnBufferLen, @lnBufferLen, 0, 0, 0)
>ENDDO
>
>?'MySql ODBC driver is ' + IIF(ASCAN(laDrivers,'MySQL',1,-1,1,1+4+8) > 0,'installed','not installed')
>

Hi Christian..

wow, seems great that solution.. Here at my PC (with XP) works fine.. What about in dif. systems (as Vista), did you already tried ?

thanks..

Claudio