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

Hi Bob,

I agree that it is another option that may be useful for Arthur. In fact, when I've read of such schemes in the past I've always been a little envious that they had conditions that let them do that.

I STILL hold out hope that my Toledo wish and/or the other one catering to SQL Server will be a reality when we see Toledo in final form.

Cheers, and don't give up hope.

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>Bob Lee
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