That's why I described it like I did - based on the keynote at Miami last September, I knew what I wanted could be done like that.

Thanks, that gives me basically what I want. I did a web search as your further reply suggested and found a site that will give me what I want. Just need to figure out how to incorporate it into VFP (or I may add it to my standard function DLLs written in VB). I've just realised it will also come in useful for a website I'm designing - credit card payments go through an agency in the States but most customers are UK - saves me having to keep the exchange rate up to date.

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>You've just described a perfect situation for a "Web Service" hosted on a web server. Your app can make a SOAP call, passing parameters for what you want and receive in return a value (which could be a string with several rates included, or better, an XML document with the various rates). Or, your app could just ask for the individual rate you want or even pass in a value and specifics about which rates and receive back the converted value.
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>Look at Rick's SOAP/Web Service white papers at www.west-wind.com. Also, he has SOAP classes already built in to the later versions of Web Connection.
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