Forms 4.5 & sockets

Is it possible for a Forms 4.5 application running under Windows 3.1 to receive messages from another machine asynchronously? Or does the Forms application have to run a user exit explicitly to wait for a message on a socket?

Our scenario is that our Forms 4.5 application will be interacting with background processes running on a Unix machine as well as our NT Server machine. I'm trying to figure out a way for the Forms app to make a request to one of these processes, and not have to sit there and wait for a response (which might not come for some time).

We will be using winsock for most of the connections.

Thanks

Joe

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