In some situations you could place the records in a DBF with object A, then upload and open the file with object B. Object B would tell object A when to write the files to the disk and get a file name in return.

Do you need all 12 fields and all 4800 records? Can you limit the data?

Brian



>OK, you really lost me there. How would an FTP site help me pass data from object to object?
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>This is not good news. I keep hearing all this talk about how XML is so great and now I find out it's dog slow. Looks like I have a lot of rewriting to do. :(
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>Thanks,
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>Michelle
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>>No XML is not really implemented well in VFP for large data sets. 100, no problem. 5000, I'd think of an FTP solution.
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>>__Stephen