> I'm fairly new to VFP 5.0, and it's distribution. One advantage to network > location seems to be that it can not be upgraded unless all users are off > line. If your distribution affects how the users access data, like a > structure change, this is good. If distributing locally, a well planned > distribution is required. Is this true ? the way we see it there are 2 kinds of updates -ones that require an immidiate update by al users -... and ones that don't for the 2nd kind - we check when the app loads and then do a change (this is easy if the main exe calls the actuall module when it runs) for the 1st kind we used a timer that will let the sysadmin shut down the users (and other stuff (s)) then when they reload the app scenario 1 occures Arnon