Hi Sebastian,

Thanks for your comment. As far as the Berlin FoxPro User Group I really wish I could go but Thursday night is always next to impossible for me. When is the next one?

Give my greetings to all the great folks at ASCI Consulting, Dr. Raab in particular.

When you say converting DBF into a 7 bit manner, anyway this can be done easily? I would normally use XML except that for larger tables the whole thing is so slow!!

>Hi Thierry!
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>Nice to meet you in an US forum!
>BTW: What about visiting the Berlin FoxPro Usergroup meeting?
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>So the web service class does a:
>RETURN FILETOSTR(cTableName)
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>IMO the mechanisms of Webservices can deal with plain textfiles only - and a DBF contains CHR(0) etc.
>To transfer the DBF you have to convert it into a 7 bit manner - but nothing else is dealing with XML <vbg>!