On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Rusty Brooks wrote: > print out a "please wait" type page, with enough text that it gets written > out right away. This was done with ns_write in an adp.
I suggested something like this earlier, although with an asynchronous worker thread. I think that better than "please wait" would be to offer an estimate of time remaining, or some other concrete progress implementation (% done), so the user has some idea how long to wait.