Hi Al,
>MS has had this KB article for some time:
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/257757 . They just keep adding new products it applies to at the end :-/
Thanks for this useful and highly documented reference. Of course the initial post was assuming people would be in some way aware and possibly partially upset by the "Office" nature of office-automation and possibly interested on old-style COM-based robust data delivery alternatives.
This thread was specifically about one single COM-based office-free solution for export/import of MS-Excel resources (for unattended servers and demanding workstations) legacy VFP applications. After a couple of tests, I felt it could it had enough technical merits to justify a post and a "call for experience" in this very field (MS-Excel import/export for unattended servers and other demanding apps) . It curiously did not really generate what was intended. It does demonstrate that, although it ain't no stackoverflow, the VFP part of the UT is still alive and somewhat "kicking":)
Daniel