>I think (although not 100% sure) that in my case the VFP app and the machines are on the same network. Thank you for all other approaches your organization is using. I will bring it up to those who will be making the decision.
If you follow the file approach we've been very successful with a File Listener/Watcher approach, you could find examples in FoxPro's samples, and is also very easy to do it in VB or C# (I actually used this approach with all three languages), the advantage is that you free your cpu as the program does nothing until a file is created/modified
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