>>I know there's an option to keep connection dialogs from
>>popping up on errors: if I can find this, would it solve
>>your problem, or are there more classes of problem to deal
>>with?
>I think dialogs are the main problem.
>Vin Miller says sys(2335,0) is the key to this.
>Is that what you were thinking of?

Nope, that's not the one. There's a setting that's specific either to ODBC or SQL that keeps connection dialogs from popping up: the connect command just returns an error (-1) at that point.