>I want to make check to see if a process is "locked." I want to keep checking for a period of time (10 seconds or so I guess), then if it is still locked, then skip on out to the RETURN. If it is not locked (becomes available) then I want to do what's in the ELSE block. I'm think of DO WHILE, but I would need to add time-checking logic somewhere and I guess it wouldn't be an ELSE, but another IF?
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>IF Proc_Lock.Locked = .T.
>	* WAIT WINDOW 'Unable to update HL7 at this time.'
>ELSE
>	* Do lots of stuff with a table
>ENDIF
>
>RETURN

lnAttempts = 0
#define MAX_ATTEMPTS 1000
do while Proc_Lock.Locked or m.lnAttempts < MAX_ATTEMPTS
   lnAttempts = m.lnAttempts + 1
enddo

if not Proc_Lock.Locked
   * Do your stuff
endif