Thanks Craig. I started on the #2 approach. I've already got some old code for doing this and I just decided to use the 'Code Reuse' programming system instead of learning more about the COM systems. <g> Learning is nice but it doesn't pay the bills ... at least fast enough. Thanks again.


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>Thanks. That helps. MTS is definately not the way to do this. There are a couple of ways it can be done.
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>1. If you want to stick with the MS COM ideas, use MSMQ. Send a message to the queue. Another PC will read the message from the queue and then process it (ie, run the report program and print the report).
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>2. Just write the report request to a table. Again, a dedicated PC will read the table, run the program, and process the report.