Awww, a perfect example of where REMOTE OLE (ACTIVE X) AUTOMATION would be useful.

MS has several article on the subject for use with VFP.

Joe


>Most of us here I'm sure have a mechanism to do indexing and packing of an application's tables as an on-line option. Is there a way to be able to keep the operation at the server rather than having all the data sent across a network for processing by a local client? Can the tempfiles (pack's implicit copy file) be kept on the server?
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>Thanks,
>Steve