>Kevin,
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>Unfortunalely, this is *not* the answer to your query.
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>Assuming that you are talking VFP 5 or later, MS should have removed any 'overlays' which might previously have been incoroprated into the VFP EXE. One could then assume that EXEs built by VFP would have the same characteristic.
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>Notwithstanding this, it seems plausible (Ed R. who surely knows more actual details than me on this issue) that bits given up to other active programs in RAM *might* be re-loaded from the EXE. I feel that, to do so, the EXE generated by VFP would have to be re-entrant, and I am not so sure that this would be the case.

Reentrance is not a requirement here. Multiple instances of VFP could easily be active and loading in sections ofd the executable file at will without reentrance; they each have their own addrss space, and their own code segments, and are simply dealing with offswets in a file that isn't changing. Reentrance is an issue where the same code segment (the code in memory) is being shared among several processes, each with their own data and system context. It's no different than sharing any other read-only data source. Even if there were sharing of the code segments taking place, the p-code isn't real native machine code...

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>Have you tried to get more absolute information as to exactly what is being referenced on the Server that is creating the troublesome traffic?
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>Good luck,
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>Jim N
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>>>So Kevin, look what you started...
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>>>I am just wondering what you are going to do. Can you go with local EXEs on each machine?
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>>I might, however, the actual question has not yet been answered.
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>>My clients load the 3 meg exe in the morning once only, so I will not reduce afternoon traffic this wasy.
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>>That is unless the system will keep reloading bits from the server as needed.
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>>I really want to know if once a section has been loaded from the server (or all of it) does it get reloaded again later.
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>>Any further ideas?
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>>Kind regards,
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>>Kev
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>>BrainBashers: www.internet-uk.com/puzzles