>sorry evan,
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>yes. that's it. one of my clients would liek to be able us the app i'm writing for them to go on line, retrieve results of a query based off what they enter on a screen (ie all school districts in GA), and download to a table. That way they can have the "so-called" latest and greatest.

Okay. To read a webpage into a string, use wwipstuff from http://www.west-wind.com/Webtools.asp. It is shareware.