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>     That is not very useful if inside this body you use library
>     functions that take a long time to complete, such as file-operations
>     that dispatch to ange-ftp:
> 
> It doesn't seem like a terribly important case to worry about.

But that's the case that I'm bumping up against.
And the solution is pretty simple and localized as I have shown.


	Stefan