>Does anyone know if there is a way to call out from inside a Terminal Services or Citrix client display (VFP app running in a TS or Citrix session on a server, but user's computer using TS, or more likely, Citrix Client to display the session)?
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>I know that we can map local printers and perhaps local drives, but have never heard of calling outside the client session (other than to drives and printers) programmatically from an app running IN the session. Don't think it can be done, but open to all wild ideas...
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>Biggest need is to duplicate current locally installed app functions of Mail Merge into local Word and launching Excel with data populated in a local spreadsheet. Too many users to realistically run those apps in the server sessions, although that might be the only clean way to do it.
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>I guess each machine could have a timer-based little thingie checking for some kind of messages that would say, "I'm the app you are running and I just saved something on your local hard drive. Now go get it and start up Excel, run the script I just put there with the data I left for you..."
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>Or, perhaps some sort of socket messaging from inside the session (sent by the server) to the local computer (all on a widely-scattered corporate intranet).
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>Any takers on the contest for most innovative solution?

I'd ask this question of Citrix tech support if I were you. You can't be the first person who's had to do something like this.