>Hi,
>
>I have a 3 MEG VFP5.0 executable residing on an NT server.
>
>I have 35 clients using Win95 to connect to NT to access this application.
>
>When each terminal initially loads the EXE into memory there will be some network traffic - fair enough.
>
>When each client is using the system, will any more traffic be created from accessing the EXE or does the Win95 client keep the entire thing in memory.
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>Ideally the only traffic we require is the raw data required to use the EXE, not the EXE itself.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Kind regards,
>
>Kev
>
>BrainBashers: www.internet-uk.com/puzzles

One common work-around for this problem is to install a 'loader' program on each workstation.

When this runs, if there is no local copy of the executable, or the date of the local executable is earlier than the copy of the executable stored on the server, the loader program will copy the latest executable from the server to the workstation, The loader then runs the local copy of the executable.