Nick N. has done some amazing things with VFP and Winsoc. It seems that route would require the back end dbf record to be dissassembled to text and the reassembled to a useable format when it arrived at the client. That wouldn't be too painful.

Nicks VFP MTDLL COM is a realtime "chat" server. I heard instanciation (Canada to San Francisco) was about 45 seconds - but after that the data really flies.

You could do a CGI data dis/re-assembly to your DBF. You would not really need to display a page, just use the CGI (maybe MTDLLL) to run a process and return a string.



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>I was thinking more like a telnet server you know. like a mysql thing. I'm thinking to make olepbulic functions and listen with winsocket on some port. then send thing to that port from abroad workstations. Anyway, i think you know what I mean:)
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>AFP rules man!!!! I used this tool 3 years ago. i implemented an intranet students bazar. i don't get too much webpage projects now (too much work, less satisfaction)
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>ionut