Well now I'll have to try it and see if it works half way decent OR is the "anticipated" bad idea. I'll report back here when done.
(also the Sleep() api produces a wait state and works extremely well in a vfp dll server in iis)

>>Rick, you are the master of the understatement! "rarely a good idea"

>>I'd love to see the example where it *is* a good idea to have a VFP server in a waitstate within IIS!

>>Eric