John,


>Over a WAN, I have found both opening and closing tables to be very slow...

My experience that this only the case when:
- much of DELETED records exists at the beginning of the table.
- The WAN was a dial-up connection.

Once the WAN is open opening tables sure is slower than on a LAN (it has to load buffers), but when you keep them open in your app, using it again is just as fast than on a LAN. Closing it is slow indeed when VFP has used writebuffers wich have to be flushed yet.

Walter,