Thanks Arnon - I thought it was "too good to be true" for *ALL* cases.
A great technique for basic bug fixes and minor enhancements though!

regards,
Jim N

>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 )
>
>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
>>