Doug, in your reply to Jerry, why do you say VFP is the premier ISAM data file manager? I'm working on a project to get some data out of ISAM files created by a UNIX application and would like to use VFP to do it. Any more info?

Ernie

>1. Create a series of classes to manage and control my application - unless I can find one already available. I'm thinking along the lines of a distribution, maintenance and upgrade object that handles just that for EXEs, Data and other issues.
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>This is the 'big one' for me right now. I need to be able to manage literally thousands of users, each with a different state & county data set, sometimes multiple. Each data set can be up to several CD's worth of data. That's why we want to use VFP on the desktop - the premier ISAM data file manager - period. Hpwever, once the initial data set has been installed updates are relatively trivial. These can be done over the Internet easily, say in a nightly maintenance mode kind of approach. I already have developed a method for updating individual field values which saves me the hassle of sending a whole record if only one field changes. Web Connection is ideal for handling this and can also scale - a big issue as well, should we grow as we'd like.