>>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.
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>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
I agree. I have one such a program, developed as a process (in C#) that monitors a folder and when an XML file is dropped into the folder, the file is converted to email and emailed. I think Al hit an advantage of file approach that VFP/C# program may not directly interfere with the process software; so hence, less liability.
Thank you.
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