Actually, that application was written under FoxPro DOS. Apparently systems along the tunnel generate enormous amounts of data that are stored and processed by a FoxPro DOS application. If I recall, they had to develop workarounds for the table size limitation in Foxpro as their data files were bigger, and a methodolgy for hot backups of the data since the files are in use 24/7.

>Chris,
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>i haven't got any suggestions for you, but i read somewhere (i think it was on MS's website) that the 'chunnel' (the undersea tunnel between england and france) is all run on vfp, so by the sounds of it, you should be ok!