>Hi Sergey, How can I schedule the update program to run every x minutes so that the data remains current online, synced with the local table? Is there an external program I should use or does VFP8 have this capability? Many thanks.
You can do it either way. You can use Windows Task scheduler to launch your exe at specified time or/and with specified interval. Or you can use VFP timer object in your EXE.
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