Jim, because tabel structure changes is something that has to be done when all users are off-line by an "administrator" (or by a sibgle person anyway) you just send out a special .exe which is run by that person once with out relation to the regular update scheme (this is what I do anyway <s>) Arnon > Nick, > > Cool! But *how* do you handle the case where, say, a table structure has > changed? > > Inquiring minds need to know > > Jim N > > > >It was in January 97 FoxPro Advisor, the article by Edward Leafe called > "Launch Updates of your Application Automatically". > >I just finished my version of this Launcher program, based on ideas of > this article, and it works pretty good. Launcher.exe has size of just 50 > Kb, and runs MyApp.APP. I added to it also functionality, which > automatically shows updated README file, to warn users of the new version > features. There is ASCII text .CFG file used to save preferences. > > > >Nick >