Thanks Jim (and Larry)

They havent rejected VFP at all, rather than they have centralised medical records for other systems uisng SQL (well, they would if it worked which I know it doesn't!).

Is it feasible to have a centralised data store of VFP data at, for example, location A with remote Locations B,C,D etc accessing the data at Location A without the need to load the exe file over the network and transferring whole tables over the network? I've asked this before on UT and got pretty negative replies in the past.

The critical thing here is speed, of course. If I could have an app such as above, what would be the minimum data transmission speed for VFP at the remote Locations to access data at Location A and to display/update records. Larry Miller in his thread mentioned 256K or better.....what do you think?

Sorry to be a pain on this but your advice would be appreciated!

Many Thanks

Bob