>Mark, you're a genius! I set the fetchsize and maxrecords to -1 and the problem went away. As near as I can figure (and I don't know if i'm going to explain this right), even though I was using the connection synchronously, by telling it to grab 100 records at a time (which must be the default) translates into some type of loop behind Foxpro. In otherwords, my one little use was being translated into 25 little use statements behind the scenes. And when the first one was done, the system was trying to be polite and letting me start to work with the first 100. At least that's how it seemed.
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>Now, if I could just put something more interesting up for the user to look at instead of "Executing remote - press ESC to cancel". Do you know of any way to change that message? Particularly something that would let me count the records as they came in (so as to have a changing status message so the user will know their computer is not locked up).
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>Anyway, thanks so much for all the help. I really appreciate it.

There is not much you can do about the wait state because VFP is no longer in control. I have an animated revolving globe cursor that sometimes I change my mouse cursor to when I do stuff like this.