>I believe that ADO 2.1 can save to XML, which is a text file. It should be easy to go from there to VFP cursor.

Craig,

ADO 2.1, arghh - I've got to get to the UDA site more often. Seems like yesterday I was testing 2.0.

Thanks for the info, yes it does support XML. As Erik replied the XML format would be larger but having a set data format that should not change may be worth it. I have not had any luck locating info on the Advanced Data Tablegram format but since it's proprietary Im not suprised. I would still like to have a better solution.