Thanks Sergey! You're great! And from the Bronx!
-- John (from the Sinnotts of Woodlawn and Kiernans of Mt. Vernon)

>John,
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>See Re: SqlStringConnection Message #884312
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>>We've been having some connection problems with our Browser->VFP->SQL application. I was trying to write a reconnect routine that might work. The only problem I have been having is that whenever you try to reconnect via SQLCONNECT(), the error dialog from the ODBC kicks in and requires human intervention.
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>>Has anyone figured out a way around this?
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>>I'd like to try to write either a reconnect routine or a kill the WestWind server routine, but it's useless if the server is sitting there with an ODBC dialog waiting for someone to press 'Connect' or 'Cancel'.
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>>Help!