At 09:32 AM 27-03-02 -0500, you wrote:

>Helen -
>
>Your strong wording (and improper assumption that we have long-running
>transactions) are misplaced. See Claudio's post.
>
>I know this exact effect happens. In fact, I have designed such actions
>into applications in the past.

Hmph. There are more crossed signals in this thread than ever existed in
the posters original problem...

:)

--HB


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