Steve,

It didn't change for VFP8. It requieres VFP8 IDE to be installed. The other way is to create VFP COM server.

>From an earlier thread I was in, it was recommended I try this once to do a PACK:
>

>oVFP = CREATEOBJECT('VisualFoxpro.Application.6')
>oVFP.DoCmd('OPEN DATABASE insert-full-path-to-DBC EXCLUSIVE')
>oVFP.DoCmd('PACK DATABASE')
>RELEASE oVFP
>

>
>That only works if the VFP6 IDE is installed on the machine, which isn't possible on a production server.
>
>I'm just wondering if it is possible (or rather, what redistributables would be needed) to do this with VFP8 now.
>
>Thanks.