>>You could write a small daemon on linux, and use IP from VFP to connect to >>that daemon and feed it the data - gets rid of samba and your cron job.

I have never used IP from VFP (anything that can use an IP socket is all you need). But writing a daemon on linux is easy stuff. Write a program (C, perl, shell whatever) that reads stdin as input, and writes stdout as output. Then put it in your /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/services files. restart inetd, and you have a daemon running on your network, on a port you specify. :)

If you need more info, contact me privately.

>Sounds good, but I don't now how to do either of those things. Can you point >me in the direction of some references so that I can get a better feel for what >you are suggesting? If not, that's OK, as this is just an internal app, and I >appreciate what you have done already.