> There is already facility for that, if I understand what you want. > Install a handler for aevt\ansr, and send the events with > kAEQueueReply. Yup. That's the basic plan, and that much works. I just need to be able to keep track of a queue of events awaiting reply, and deal with the replies sensibly for my application (retransmit on failure/timeout and that sort of thing). That's pretty much straightforward stuff. Can I get the system to send me an alarm event of some kind after some number of seconds? Cameron Ashby Evolution Online Systems ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org