Hi Nigel,

Thanks, I'll give it a go.

Regards,
Gavin...

>Alternatively, if you're using ADO, you can create DSNless connections on the fly. Here's example of what I've been doing recently:
>
>

oConn=CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
>oConn.ConnectionString="Driver={Microsoft Visual FoxPro Driver};SourceDB=\\nbcserver\webdrive\testdata\webtest1.dbc;SourceType=DBC;"
>oConn.Open
>
>oRS=CreateObject("ADODB.RecordSet")
>oRS.Open("Select * from webproducts", oConn)
>

>
>Just need to change around the connection string for Access (even have them all stored in registry or INI. I'm currently planning to disconnect data from one of my apps to allow any data store to be used by VFP app.
>
>>G'Day Andrew,
>>
>> Of course, how simple. It didn't occur to me that a .DSN file was just an .INI type file.
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>>Thanks Mate,
>>Gavin...
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