>The ODBC Driver already approaches a mb. To support the langauge, I would bet it would take at least 500 kb more - perhaps 750 kb. In any case, it will be close to 2mb - too big for an ODBC Driver..
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A large subset of the language is already in the odbc driver, read %systemroot%\System32\Drvvfp.hlp for what is and is not in it (note that pcount() is not listed as excluded, but is). I don't think 2 new functions would add much. The interpreter is not the same as the VFP interpreter, it runs directly off the source and does not have a precompiler stage.


P.S. I have found a utility that makes it possible to make JDBC and ODBC calls to a remote machine that is running an ODBC driver that uses direct file I/O. This may be handy for some applications. It is called dbgate22.zip. I'll check it out soon and post an evaluation.