Thanks it worked great, any performance issues in doing this?, when implemented it will be on a LAN also, the dbf is the clients master table for a car dealer, right now it's about 2000 records long and under 1 megabyte, and I don't think it will grow too much too soon, so I don't think I'll have a problem in this particular case, but, is it possible to do it fetchin only a fixed amount of reocords if the need should rise?, thanx again