Tried that . No go still a blank page. I also removed the php tag at the beginning and end of the include. That just shows a parse error.
So unless you have a suggestion on what I am doing wrong I guess I am back to the Iframe tag.
Could it be due to the html file is a stand alone page with head,meta and body tags.
What I am using is a page that someone else publishes to the same site so it is native. I believe it has some java and cgi scripts in it already have not looked that close since I don't edit that file.
So maybe that is the culprit and I just need to live with Iframe.