i Erik,

Your reply leads me to ask about the new BUILD MTDLL delivered in SP3. I do NOT have the software yet (awaiting arrival of CD), but it seems that it might make your statement obsolete. Do you have any information from the SP on how to use it, what it can do, etc?

Jim N

>>Is it possible to create an OLE server in Fox that will return control to the calling procedure immediately?
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>You have to fire off another thread to do this, and it's not really practical in VFP- what are you trying to do?