Ok, I'm a little slow today, but I think I've figured out what you all
are trying to tell me.
1) check to see if the work is already in progress
if not
2) ShellExecute another program to do the actual work
3) return an initial page with the wait message to the user
and the autorefresh
if so
2) see if the work is done
if not
3)return another message or partial results and
autorefresh
if so
3) return the results
This should work, thanks
Doug
autorefresh - is that <meta http-equiv="refresh" content"30"> for a 30
second wait.