>Hi Larry
>
>Yep, I thought of that, but the string in VFP6ENU.DLL isn't long enough. I wanted to change the message from one query to the next. And besides, I'd shoot anyone who really deployed an app where it hacked the DLLs.

I would too! < g > But it's Friday and I needed to post something non-serious. < s >

And I am guessing that a query that takes this long would be significantly impacted using a UDF as a column and something like Steven Black's MsgSvc ThermoBar to display progress?