A lot of you have probably seen my posts recently on how I can get my prog to open from asp or dll or something. That doesn't seem to be working for me.

Tell me if this is a real bad idea or not.

I was thinking of having my program stay running constantly on the server. I can put it into a loop, constantly checking to see if a file exists... if the file does exist, it will read in the first line (which, will be the pathname for a variable my prog uses) and do the stuff it needs to do, then delete the file. Whenever somebody clicks a certain thing on the web, the asp will create the file again, and write the pathname in it. etc. It's pretty simple, and I have it so it works, just wondering about system resources and stuff.

bad idea or no?

thanks,

Paul