>Although I am getting to grips on how to create COM's I need to know what the advantages are and any examples of when you would use COM.
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>From what I understand any application that supports COM can use ones I have created in VFP, but that's all I know - is there any more to it, what are it's main uses and when is it best to use COM?
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>Thanks for responses.
>Kev

We use them to do processes that require "overnight" runs. Things like PACK and INDEX processes work well on an autoserver too.

Steve