>Is there any way that a VFP app can be designed to take advantage (i.e. multiple instances ala C++)of a multi-processor machine.

PMFJI, but you could create an out-of-process COM EXE. Because it runs as itsn process, the OS would most likely launch it using utilizing the other processor (although it may not depending on load).

You could design the COM server in such a way as to immediately return control to the process that called it and then laucnh a process from itself. This wouldn't affect your primary application at all. Yopu would periodically have to check a status flag of the COM server to see if it was complete but that's relatively easy to do.

This is the only way (IMO) to spawn threads using VFP.

HTH.