Ed, Erik's trick have my head spinning (so we can do asynchronous processing, do we?), and yours puts me in limbo :)
I simply can not understand what are job servers or job servers environments, sorry my ignorance.
Can you elaborate a little bit more, please?
TIA

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>There are several ways besides COM to do this - you could actually spawn another VFP session as a separate executable to run in parallel, or start job servers that run on different machines and scan a table looking for work to be done; if they have the necesary resources, the server claims the job and runs it, and updates a set of status fields in the "jobs" table to provide notification of assumption of work and completion of tasks. Not even a necessity for COM if you plan the job erver environments correctly.
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