Hi Pete,

>I read recently ( in Advisor or Foxtalk or ...) that you can control VSS from VFP using automation or Activex, but I cannot for the life of me remember where I read it, any ideas??

It was probably the article about automating the creation setups for larger applications. VSS automation was used in the first step.

There's a document in MSDN that talks about automation. It describes all obejcts, colelctions, properties and methods.

Christof