Hi Ed,

Yes, your information is helpful and encouraging. I heard about the new NT 4.0 Terminal Server but don't know too much about it yet. I certainly wasn't too impressed with the "old" 3.51 environment and the 256 color limitations. I am now switched over to VFP 6.0 so it sounds like NT Terminal Server is the way to go. Do you know of a good source of information for the NT Terminal server goop.

Thanks,
John.

>John,
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>Our company's product is VFP and Citrix based. I'm not sure if your currently using Citrix, but in case your not:
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>1) VFP6 does not work correctly with the NT 3.51 Citrix system, although VFP5 does. In VFP6, the system menus can become garbled and pageframes loose their captions or do not appear. These problems were resolved by NT 4.0 Terminal Server with or without MetaFrame. Otherwise, stick with VFP5.
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>2) I'm sure you also know that VFP uses "Bitmapped" screens which do result in slower screen updates, since Citrix normally intercepts standard window creation calls and emulates them on the client for speed. However, VFP does not use this approach (from the legacy FPW days), so Citrix transmits VFP bitmap screens pixel by pixel.
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>We have worked around this by setting the cache level high on the client since citrix will cache the bitmapped screen. But it still is a consideration.
>BTW, VB and VC++ uses the API windowing which speeds screen updates dramatically, but we still like VFP better ;)
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>Hope all this chatter helps.
>-Ed