Thanks Merlyn,
It will take me some time to understand this.
I ran said program and it produced output, but not in quite the way I was expecting. I expected it to print out 1/2 lines at a time as the traceroute returned information.
Instead, the hour glass just hung around till all the output was received.
I am not really concenrned with the output of the jobs I need to do. I am more interested in being able to pop-up a new window asking them to change some physical media when the first set of jobs is done
Then I want to begin the process over again
Thanks again for the help
H