Jim,

This one again. One of these days, maybe our hopes for VFP will come true.
But Arthur I think was asking about a simple version of a server. something like ?? Piners? Version of a VFP Com Server... I cant recall where I saw it, but basically it was a instance of VFP running on a server waiting for requests from vfp clients. Rather than having a Database server, it was using VFP own server like functions to act as a true client server... The Client application never actually opened files, but just got back pass'd Arrays of data, based on querries.
But What I recall, was that it was a local network only type installation. not usable for the internet.

But.... Rick Stahal has a class published over on West-wind.com which shows how you can use VFP and web server to react to http request in a similar fashion to odbc calls to a database.

But that is really the basics of web serverices anyway. using HTTP to send and receive requests using IIS - and SOAP VFP can publish web services. and yo9u can write applications that way today, using VFP as a server as long as you either use .NET / WSDL and have a instance of VFP running on your web server.

I know I know, its not what we were looking for. But it might be an option for ARthur.

Bob Lee



>Arthur,
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>Just to clarify the OLD 'wish' a bit...
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>the intention was to have **any** accesses to designated tables to be done at the server end, thus including SQL statements that involved such tables.
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>By the way, there is another wish in the list, by someone else, asking that VFP be made able to handle SQL Server tables in exactly the same manner as VFP tables are handled. You ight find that one interesting too. I know that it was submitted NEAR the same time as I did mine.
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>Cheers
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>>Jim:
>>I was thinking somewhat more but robust as in the ability to pass whole programs to be processed from the remote server in the same manner as one passes a SQL statement to Oracle, but your idea is germane to the concept I was attempting to convey.
>>...Art