I don't remember that, but don't doubt it was there.

I used local views for DBFs and remote views for remote data long before .NET came along.

>FWIW when VFP was due for release, dBase had a version that allowed you to "use" a whole remote table that was downloaded in a similar fashion to a VFP table- IOW not the whole lot at once. You could browse, seek, whatever, and it used indices to download just the data you needed plus a bit extra to allow scrolling in a grid. From memory it did use that database they tried to promote- BDE? Anyway, if you remember Jeff Winchell, he swore by this method of remote data access. But Remote views always made more sense to me. Still do, fwiw. ;-)