CompuServe Messages

Chris, Having one process do all the work, means you're back to a single user concept…which I presume you want to get away from by having separate tasks. If user 1 is doing a long search and user 2 wants to update a single record and user 3 wants to see a certain record…only user 1 is happy, because his request is being worked on. User 2 walks away from the terminal waiting for his request to occur and user 3 is fuming about nothing happening at all. There's no reason a read can't be done even if there is a pending update queued. As long as you insure data integrity via record locking that is. Don