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PhilF
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I see you're way ahead of me. Also that I had forgotten key aspects of your request by the time I answered it. Sorry! There are slightly smaller O/S-based hammers you can use, like sockets or named pipes (or even INPUT-OUTPUT THROUGH) .There is also Progress PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE. I have my doubts as to whether any of these would meet your needs for reliability and speed, but I have never tested them in that way. They would also require some careful thought if you are trying to synchronize more than 2 threads at once -- though it shouldn't be too hard to make it work. I suspect that David Abdala is right, and that a call to the O/S is probably what you need. Though even for production I think you could encapsulate the calls into a Progress subroutine instead of creating an external program. If you are ambitious, you could even link the necessary calls directly into the Progress executable as new commands, but I don't see why you would want to. 
Best of luck. I'm curious to hear what solution you eventually arrive at.
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