>I'm using VFP7 SP1
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>A new client needs to send a form to his clients via an e-mail attachment.
>The form is too complex to fill out on line. He also needs to restrict his clients from changing the form's questions in any way, so he doesn't feel he can use a MS Word DOCument.
>I'm about to try and convince him to send a VFP EXE file that has only 1 form in it, and his clients will then attach the DBF (or text file) to an e-mail back to him.
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>Obviously we would want the EXE file to be as small as possible, so it doesn't take very long to download it.
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>What should I be looking at in order to make it as small as possible?
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>TIA

Unless all of his clients have the VFP runtimes installed, you are going to have to send several mb's to each one.

How are the people to get the information back? If they are to print it and answer, why not use a pdf file? If they are going to send the document back completed electronically, what difference does it make if they change the questions - he is interested in the answers? What makes it "too complex" to complete on-line?