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>> Take a look at MSMQ (MS Message Queue). It's meant to do be used in these kinds of situations. Rick has a class on his web site to handle communication with it (http://www.west-wind.com) and I'm pretty sure there is a white-paper on the Microsoft site (VFP section).
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>Cool, I'm on my way there now. Thanks for the tip.


Actually, it might be overkill for some situations, but it's free if you're running NT server anyways it's something to consider. File-based messaging via a table works OK too and it's definitely easy to implement.