After replying I see that Sim is using VFP5 after all! I'm gonna stick with my recommendation to switching to SLEEP or the even slicker FindFirstChangeNotification() explained at
http://www.news2news.com/vfp/?example=117&function=168Sim - I'm eager to hear what you discover.
Kogo Michael Hogan
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I think so Brain, but "Snowball for Windows"?
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