The programmer told me that it always returns the lowest available channel. So I'm going to create a simple class for keeping track of opens and closes than hands out the channel number on the client side.

Also, they have a dservevbs object, which was written to support variants in VBScript. So that is an option.

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>I don't see anywhere in documentation where that COM could change channel.
>It expects dsOpen(fl$,chan%)
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