In this case sleep() would probably ok for use in an out of proc EXE COM server too, correct? If not, what would be the best alternative?

Thanks,
Bill

>FWIW, you have to be careful with what you use Sleep for, because it suspends VFP's main thread. In a DLL it's probably safe to do this, but in other situations using Sleep causes all of VFP to freeze up including possible events that might be firing from ActiveX control and the like.
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