Hi David.

Long time no chat!

>I have only one comment to this thread - rather than set up timer-based COM objects and arcane API calls, wouldn't it be easier to just switch to Unix/Linux? One statement in most languages, and there you are - a forked child process.

Since this is a VFP issue, that wouldn't work.

An alternative to timer-based COM objects, BTW, is using COM+ to manage the object pool.

Doug