Hello Thomas, thanks for the summary. I'm thinking about a different way: If I have DBD::ODBC running on a Unix machine shouldn't it be possible to access the ODBC Server FileMaker Pro database from there?? Unix as the client, TCP/IP network, FMPro on Mac with ODBC service in short. The need to access FMPro through ODBC stems from non Mac platforms, doesn't it? (a web server e.g.) Axel just some thoughts # ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? # ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org